At JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company's ...

The Edge browser that comes with Windows 10 shows a marked improvement in performance, particularly in the area of JavaScript performance. Now Microsoft wants to amp up performance even more, and ...

Microsoft Edge is Microsoft's Windows 10 specific web brower. Unlike Internet Explorer (IE), which traces back its family tree to 1995 and Spyglass Mosaic, Edge is largely a new browser.

Microsoft Edge is the Windows 10 default browser, and powering the sleeker, faster browser is what was once Microsoft's proprietary JavaScript engine, Chakra.

Both tech giants bring powerful, feature-packed browsers to the table, but only one can dominate your digital life. We break ...

Microsoft says that the JavaScript performance for its new Microsoft Edge web browser is already beating Internet Explorer, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox in two benchmark tests.

Last November, Microsoft for the first time provided out-of-the-box Edge browser support for WebAssembly, the new technology that lets developers write Web code in non-JavaScript languages like C, C++ ...

News Microsoft to open source Edge browser’s Chakra JavaScript engine ChakraCore will be available in January on GitHub By Jeremy Kirk Dec 7, 2015 5:07 am PST ...