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February 27, 2024

Why Microsoft Edge is the best browser for digital media

When it comes to connecting with friends or expressing yourself with digital content, you’ll want a powerful browser that can match the speed of everyday life. Enter Microsoft Edge. While we often think of digital or social and our mobile devices together, using a laptop or 2-in-1 device to create digital content can offer more versatility to express yourself. Edit photos, write a blog post, creatively reshare your thoughts or even make memes and animated videos in ClipChamp.*

Using a smart browser gives you control over your security and privacy preferences, so you can limit incoming notifications and avoid distraction. Discover how these features combine seamlessly in Microsoft Edge to enhance your own content and how you share it.

Create and consume media in an instant with a speed-optimized browser

With optimized performance and advanced features aimed at enhancing digital content, Microsoft Edge ensures that files load quickly and visuals appear crisp and play smoothly, no matter what web-based platform you use to create.

Built-in features like startup boost and sleeping tabs reduce the time it takes for web content to launch and reserves system resources for the most demanding digital content. Not to mention, whether you’re gaming, streaming a how-to tutorial or an unboxing of the latest tech, Clarity Boost brings everything into crystal-clear focus.

Enhanced privacy and security can help keep you safe online

Did you know that using a browser instead of a mobile app is a more secure way to consume and share digital media? Not only can you avoid most location trackers, but you can more quickly and easily access the myriad of security and privacy settings of the most popular social media pages. Fine-tune your settings to hide certain content, set your posts to auto-delete, or block spammers in a flash.

What’s more, the Microsoft Edge browser includes built-in features to block tracking cookies, malware, and potential privacy threats. Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, built into Microsoft Edge, is your first line of defense against malicious sites, downloads, and phishing attacks. You can avoid the possibility of hackers accessing your accounts with yet another layer of built-in security: Password Monitor can check your current password against those leaked in data breaches. Another option is to create a strong new password with the click of a button by using password generator in Microsoft Edge.

If you have kids that love web content, Kids Mode is a fun way to provide kid-friendly content and colorful themes and help parents manage screen time, screen time.

Create, share, and upload easily with seamless app integration

The newest and most intuitive video maker, Clipchamp, works directly in Microsoft Edge as an in-browser app. Use Clipchamp to create and edit your own videos with text-to-speech, automatically generated captions, special effects, and more.* Then, you’re able to upload instantly to YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, all the most popular social media platforms.

Plus, you can browse the extensive library of extensions and Add-Ons for Microsoft Edge that can add chat functionality, monitor site usage, schedule posts in advance, check spelling and grammar, and download or convert any videos that you come across.

Limit distraction with notification settings

Want to know if you’ve been tagged in a photo? Did someone reply to you, or invite you to an upcoming event? Do you need to see every single post in your feed immediately? The volume of digital content and speed of engagement on social media is astonishing. Sometimes, the onslaught of notifications coming your way feels overwhelming. Fortunately, Microsoft Edge makes it easy to limit browser notifications without having to go into a device’s settings.

How ever you use social media, create or consume digital content, it helps to have a thoroughly modern and optimized browser as your online companion. Not only can Microsoft Edge improve how you create and consume digital content, but it can help keep you safe, make managing settings easier, and keep you focused when it’s most important. Try Microsoft Edge today and see how it can help you get everything you need done quickly and safely.

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