Microsoft today named its new browser Microsoft Edge (ME) after using the “Project Spartan” code name for the last several three months.

Edge will be the successor to Internet Explorer (IE), particularly IE11, and will be the default browser in Windows 10 on all devices, from PCs to smartphones. IE11, however, will continue to be packaged with the new OS.

“Microsoft Edge is the browser built for Windows 10,” said Windows design chief Joe Belfiore near the end of a long keynote address that opened Build, the company’s developer conference.

In hindsight, the name choice was obvious: The new browser’s rendering engine had earlier also been dubbed “Edge.” That engine will be one of two bundled with Windows 10. (The 18-year-old Trident engine will continue to power IE11.)

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