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.

Microsoft is adding JavaScript performance improvements to the Chakra engine behind the Edge web browser, which will be available for all Windows 10 users as part of the upcoming Anniversary ...

The problem with using JavaScript is that you have to download it before it can start working – and that can end up slowing everything down, especially, as Microsoft notes, on low-end devices.

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

Microsoft put its new browser to the test in two different benchmarks, Octane 2.0 and Jet Stream. As you can see for yourself from the above screenshot, Edge performed quite well, managing to beat ...

Microsoft’s JavaScript engine core components will be open-sourced next month, Microsoft announced at JSConf US. ChakraCore will provide a fully-fledged, self-contained JavaScript virtual ...

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 ...

On January 13, 2016, Microsoft made good its December 2015 promise to open source ChakraCore, the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. And, believe it or not, Microsoft will also port it to Linux.

Microsoft Gaurav Seth, principal program manager lead at Microsoft, announces at the JSConf US Last Call conference on Friday that the Chakra JavaScript engine will be an open source project. In a ...

Microsoft brings ChakraCore, the main element of the Chakra JavaScript engine used in the Edge browser and Universal Windows Platform, to Linux and OS X.