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Speed. The need for it. Much has been written about the Microsoft Edge performance, and it seems like the story is far from complete. The software titan continues to eke out every last drop of it.

The speed, that is.

In certain use cases, as you shall find out below.

For all intents and purposes, Microsoft Edge is the only major application that picked up some significant improvements in the November Update for the operating system — almost all of them are underlying, under the hood, in the code base.

And most of them come as part of the EdgeHTML 13 engine that debuts with this new version of Windows 10.

Insiders have been testing this major update to Edge via the various preview builds of the OS that have been released over the last couple of months. And now Microsoft has published a number of benchmarks that confirm these improvements.

Take a peek:

In the HTML5 test, Edge now scored 458 points, which is a notable improvement of 56 points over EdgeHTML 12 and a substantial 117 points over Internet Explorer.

The Windows 10 Threshold 2 version of Edge also improves the speed of the browser and feature support for Chakra, the JavaScript engine that powers it.

It ended up with 84 points in Kangax ES6, while rivals browsers like Chrome and Firefox lag behind in what Redmond labels as perhaps the largest update in JavaScript history.

Solid proof that Microsoft Edge continues to evolve and is well on track to replace the default browsing choice on consumer and business computers. We can at least see business users using this solution to develop their custom applications in the near future, replacing the tried and tested IE.

More of this, please.