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End of the road for old Edge

Posted on April 19, 2021 at 01:08 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 18.14 • 2021-04-19

PATCH WATCH

By Susan Bradley

The April 13 updates bring a close to “old” or “legacy” Edge and force us to say hello to “new” Edge. The Windows 10 updates released in April will remove legacy Edge and replace it with new Edge.

I’ve noted before that when I’ve set a default PDF viewer and then installed new Edge, it has been necessary to reset the preference. Resetting default applications always has been problematic in Windows 10; it has often taken several feature releases before things settled down and defaults were respected.

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.14.0 (2021-04-19).
This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.14.F (2021-04-19).

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