Microsoft Edge is getting a Copilot-inspired redesign

Microsoft is preparing to launch a major UI refresh of its Edge browser soon. The software maker has started bringing the design language from Copilot to early Canary and Dev test versions of its Microsoft Edge browser.

Design changes include a settings section that looks identical to the Copilot app, updated context menus, and an updated new tab page. Windows Central reports that Edge will also have rounded corners and use the same colors and fonts used by Microsoft’s Copilot app.

The new UI of Microsoft Edge isn’t tied to the Copilot Mode of Microsoft’s browser, either. Microsoft appears to be pushing ahead with using Copilot’s unique design language inside Edge, and it could mean we see elements of this UI across Microsoft’s other web properties and perhaps even inside Windows at some point in the future.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman revealed last year that Microsoft’s path forward with Edge is to evolve the browser, rather than create a whole new AI browser. “There isn’t going to be a new browser; this is just going to be one experience,” said Suleyman in an interview with Notepad.

Weaving the Copilot design language more closely into Edge will certainly make Microsoft’s browser feel like it’s more focused on AI features than it does today. Microsoft’s Copilot design language is radically different to the Fluent design system the company uses across many of its products. Copilot first got this overhauled design after most of the Inflection AI team joined Microsoft in 2024. The design is almost identical to the Pi AI assistant that Inflection AI was working on.