For Microsoft Edge, Application Guard helps isolate corporate-defined untrusted sites to protect your company while employees browse the Internet.

As an enterprise administrator, you need to define which sites, cloud resources and internal networks are trusted. Everything on your list is considered untrusted.

If an employee accesses an untrusted site through Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge opens the site in a separate container with Hyper-V enabled.

On the Reddit community, in a post titled “Microsoft Defender Application Guard 22H2 bug”, users reported that Application Guard crashes when trying to open a website in the Edge browser This is a bug in the Reddit community.

Another German user told the outlet that everything was fine with Edge version 108, but that upgrading to Edge version 109.0.1519.55 caused the Application Guard to crash, and that he had tested it 52 times in a row and it crashed every time.

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Notably, Edge 109 was the last version of the web browser compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, for which Microsoft terminated support in January 2023 on Patch Tuesday.

Microsoft has fixed 14 different security issues in Microsoft Edge 109. Two of the security issues are specific to Edge, while the remaining 12 issues are the same as in other Chromium-based browsers.

The two Edge-specific vulnerabilities have a severity rating of Important and Medium. One is a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-21775), and the other is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the browser (CVE-2023-21796). One of the Chromium security issues has a severity rating of high, while the remaining vulnerabilities have a severity rating of medium or low.

Microsoft Edge 109 introduced a new text prediction feature designed to help users “write faster” and “reduce errors. The feature is currently only available on the English version of Edge in the United States, India and Australia. Microsoft plans to add more language support and enable the feature in more regions in future releases.

Text prediction enhances the Microsoft Editor in Edge with grammar, spelling, and style suggestions. When the feature is enabled, Edge sends the data to Microsoft for processing. According to Microsoft, Text Prediction uses “natural language processing to generate predictions for long-form editable text fields on web pages.

Edge users can disable the writing assistance feature in the browser or switch from using Microsoft Editor to basic writing assistance to prevent Edge from sending data to Microsoft.

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