Edge based on Chromium: in the first build, it will have to be downloaded separately
The new version of Microsoft Edge based on Chromium will not be installed natively on Insider builds, but will be made available through a dedicated download.
Microsoft has embarked on a new path with its Edge, the browser that was supposed to erase Internet Explorer and its fame. The company has officially announced that in the future your browser will use the Chromium engine, that of the competitor Chrome, and in recent hours has released more details about what was announced as an epochal news.
Kyle Alden, one of the heads of the software division of Microsoft, has written on Reddit that the browser will not initially be pre-installed in the beta builds for Insider users, but will be made available as a separate download in early 2019. To date, the timing in which the release will take place has been announced it seems that the most probable period is around the BUILD annual conference, which usually takes place between the months of March and May.
” We are working to ensure that the preview builds are available as soon as possible, the initial periods of 2019 are still our target, but we want the first preview to already provide a good user experience, so we are not yet able to be more precise than that in terms of timing, ” wrote Alden in one of the messages. In addition to developing a version of Chromium-based Edge, Microsoft has more news for its users.
For example, he opened the new Edge Insider program, designed specifically for developers, which will provide the ability to run tests and experiments on new APIs and new features expected in the future builds of Windows 10. Presumably the two changes will converge in a future not better specified, with the development of the two projects that could become one.
What is clear is that Microsoft is taking more and more seriously, and with targeted actions, the testing phase of its software products, especially after the debacle we have seen with some of the releases of Windows 10, even recently. Feeding Edge with Chromium and other software to users and developers will reduce the risk of giving out to the public versions that are not yet fully prepared for their apps, as happened last year – for example – with October 2018 Update.
