Microsoft today announced bringing the Microsoft Edge WebView2 to consumers with PCs running Windows 10. That means developers should no longer bother including dependencies in their apps.

Thanks to its new Chromium underpinnings, Microsoft's new Edge browser can now handle Chrome extensions on Windows 10 and MacOS.

Microsoft Edge just got a lot faster — UI elements now load up to 40% quicker Going forward, Microsoft says that it plans to keep WebView2 updated alongside the major Microsoft Edge releases.

Microsoft has released a new SDK for WebView2, the new version of its WebView control that's powered by the new Chromium-based Edge. Like the browser itself, the SDK only works with Windows 10.

Rebuilt Microsoft Teams app promises twice the speed and half the RAM usage Microsoft dumps Electron framework for its own Edge WebView2 backend.