• Edge isn’t dead, it’s just morphing

    Posted on December 6, 2018 at 13:21 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    The sky isn’t falling. Although I wish it would.

    Joe Belfiore just posted on the future of Edge:

    Over the next year or so, we’ll be making a technology change that happens “under the hood” for Microsoft Edge, gradually over time, and developed in the open so those of you who are interested can follow along. The key aspects of this evolution in direction are:

    1. We will move to a Chromium-compatible web platform for Microsoft Edge on the desktop. Our intent is to align the Microsoft Edge web platform simultaneously (a) with web standards and (b) with other Chromium-based browsers…

    2. Microsoft Edge will now be delivered and updated for all supported versions of Windows and on a more frequent cadence. We also expect this work to enable us to bring Microsoft Edge to other platforms like macOS…  we will evolve the browser code more broadly, so that our distribution model offers an updated Microsoft Edge experience + platform across all supported versions of Windows, while still maintaining the benefits of the browser’s close integration with Windows.

    No explicit promise to unhook Edge updates from Windows — so it becomes independently updatable, like a UWP app. But it’s hard to imagine Windows being delivered “on a more frequent cadence.”

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