Microsoft Edge Dev now notifies you when earning Microsoft Rewards points

Edge will now show a notification when you earn Microsoft Rewards points while using the browser.

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What you need to know

Microsoft Edge Dev build 104.0.1287.1 is now available. The latest version of the browser includes a few new features, including the option to show notifications when a person earns Microsoft Rewards points. It’s a relatively small update, but it also includes the standard set of reliability improvements and changed behaviors.

Here are the added features in the build, as listed in aMicrosoft Tech Community post:

Below are the changed behaviors brought by the update:

In related browser news,Microsoft retired Internet Explorerearlier this week. The company has tried to shift people toward Edge for years and took a major step in that direction with the retirement of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer helped people connect to the web for over 25 years, but Microsoft has taken a more modern approach to browsing with Edge.

Microsoft Edge Dev

Microsoft has several Insider versions of Edge, including Canary, Dev, and Beta. Edge Dev sits in the middle of those channels, allowing people to test out experimental features without dealing with the instabilities seen in Edge Canary.

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