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Microsoft makes a browser but the point people are typically making here is that Edge is just a reskin of Chromium.

Between IE and the current Chromium-based Edge browser, was born, lived, and died another browser engine named EdgeHTML.

IE was 2 browser families ago from Microsoft.

I thought EdgeHTML was just Trident with some legacy code ripped out.

Edit: admittedly, "just" is probably underselling it a bit, but it's still a far cry from a completely new engine.

It was very much a fork of Trident, yes. I believe there was significant refactoring done after the legacy code was ripped out.

Yes, but that was killed because Chrome moves too fast, and maintaining EdgeHTML wasn't easy for MS.

Parent said: IE wasn't killed because the web moves too fast -- and used the presence of Edge (or EdgeHTML) as the argument.

But both IE and EdgeHTML were killed because Chrome moved too fast for MS to be worth it to maintain its own engine...