Edge seems pretty inoffensive. It's a typical but somewhat pared down cell phone browser. It has no menu bar. It DOES surprisingly have the option to show the favorites bar. I liked that. The locations bar has back and forth arrows for next and previous site, reload site button, home button, location input box with a standard star to favorite/bookmark the address, something called the hub where you get favorites, reading list (works like Pocket), history and downloads, something about taking a web note, a cell phone type share button (with incomprensible non-standard icon. FEATURE!!) and the familiar ... for other options.
It's pretty innocuous, pretty substandard as far as features go and is styled to blur the line between the "Metro" apps and the Windows apps. Each attempts to mimic the other in Windows 10, it's truly bizarre.
But it works just like your cell phone browser and no surprises there. If the goal is to demote computers to mere cell phones chock this one up as a success. There's nothing to recommend it but not many negatives.
And don't fall for their claptrap about how much safer it is. It was infested just fine on this computer and did nothing to sound the alarm or prevent the infestation, website hijack or phishing scam. Edge was fat, dumb and happy.
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