[fxbl0i]

This wasn't necessary, they just had to get rid of the slow, ugly UWP UI framework. The Edge rendering engine was fine.

It looks like this new Edge uses Win32 instead of UWP, so people will actually use it, and they'll pat their own backs thinking the problem was the rendering engine. No, it was the stupid UI framework. >:(

[zamadatix]

99% of people probably never even noticed Edge is UWP based. I don't really think MS switched over because they were losing out on performance either. Seems more like they were just tired of maintaining a first class browser stack that wasn't very popular when using Google's gets them everything just about the same.