Thanks Woody. Do we know yet if it’s being forcibly installed or whether we can hide it permanently?

It comes as a recommended update, but unchecked. I got both it and the Microsoft Security or Intelligence update (virus definitions for MSE) yesterday on one machine and today on another, with Chredge unchecked but the virus definition update checked and both identified as recommended (both Windows 7 Home Premium x64 sp1). I installed it on one machine yesterday to play with and hid it on the other machine today. It’s almost identical to the latest Chrome browser in the settings menus. It also comes automatically with Windows 10 Home version 2004.

I have Win7 pro with ESU licence, my update setting is: show me the updates, I’ll decide. So the first I heard about this was when an update showed on Tuesday as “Microsoft Edge Update for Win 7 KB4567409 > 80 MB.” Since I’m aware of Edge but already use Firefox, Chrome & Brave (for various things), I looked at some reviews of Edge and decided that it’s so similar to Chrome, I don’t need it. And this is a ‘re-vamped’ Edge, apparently, since the original didn’t catch on. The biggest plus, it seems, is that it uses less memory (Chrome is a memory hog), the biggest negative is that it uses Bing for search, which still lags behind google search — but I prefer DuckDuckGo. So my humble theory is that poor Microsoft is still pushing Bing really hard, and offering the incentive of a browser with smaller memory use — instead of fixing the real problem: improving Bing.

Woody,

My question is who in their right mind would install any additional software from MSFT like CREDGE with the likely hood of it being buggy as all sin and the most probable nod that MSFT will not offer security patches for yet another broken piece of software for Win7 when they would not even fix the issues created by the 1/14/20 update when they put Win7 out to pasture.

Hmmm, ugh no thanks…..I’ll stick with Firefox.

I kept getting a pop-up to download Chredge every time I did a search for anything using Bing. Every time it showed its ugly face I clicked on Maybe later and it stopped. I also got an update for it which I hid.

I just checked Windows Update and Chredge had been offered to me as an optional, recommended, update.  I just hid it.

I hid the optional update for Windows 8.1.

If you want use Edge just install it, if not then dont. That simple is that. Dont understand questions if should be installed or not.

Microsoft is right in offering ChrEdge to ALL Windows 7/8.1 users as ChrEdge is more secure, faster, uses less RAM.. then Firefox, Chrome… and benefits Microsoft’s telemetry too. /s

If you want ChrEdge, download and install manually. Manual install can be uninstalled while WU install can’t be uninstalled.

Same here, listed under Optional updates on Win 8.1

Microsoft Edge Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems (KB4567409)

Download size: 80.6 MB

You may need to restart your computer for this update to take effect.

Update type: Recommended

This update provides the latest feature and quality updates to Microsoft Edge.

More information:
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4567409

Help and Support:
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4567409

The market has spoken. Microsoft (all browsers) 6.3%, Chrome 63.7%

I doubt very much Microsoft is even in the race any longer. One of the biggest pluses of Chrome is an under-the-covers auto update. Very few people even know that there browser has been updated, unless of course they read a news article about it.

Windows Update should be set to never and it should stay that way.

My 120 client systems have not seen a Microsoft Update in 3 years now. Not a single instance of any kind of a problem. In fact, those systems run like machines day in day out. They have essentially become Steady-state machines.

anonymous wrote:

It comes as a recommended update, but unchecked. I got both it and the Microsoft Security or Intelligence update (virus definitions for MSE) yesterday on one machine and today on another, with Chredge unchecked but the virus definition update checked and both identified as recommended (both Windows 7 Home Premium x64 sp1). I installed it on one machine yesterday to play with and hid it on the other machine today. It’s almost identical to the latest Chrome browser in the settings menus. It also comes automatically with Windows 10 Home version 2004.

 

On the machine where you installed Chredge, does Windows Services now present several “MicrosoftEdge” entries for its automatic updating?  If so (and I were you), I would set those to manual or disable them entirely.

For me is still mystery why is this update “Recommended” and not “Optional”.

Windows 7 Pro with 0Patch Pro.
ChrEdge Optional : Recommended.

Don’t see the need of hiding optional updates (there is a long list on this W7 PC).

Yes, I found it on my non-ESU Windows 7 machine by virtue of the fact that I couldn’t shut down without installing it. That must have been b/c I have it set to automatic updates, as I still need Office 2010 updates, until its EOL in Oct, 2020

To avoid problems should I uninstall it? (I never use Edge, not even in Windows 10, and I open the Windows 7 laptop only occasionally, always with the the wireless turned off, the ethernet turned on, and with no browser usage [Firefox]). I open the Windows 7 laptop because my printer for printing files from the Windows 10 laptop works only when the Windows 7 machine is turned on, because the printer is set up that way and I’ve never figured out how to switch it over to work only with the Windows 10 machine).

Whether I install Edge from a download or Win Update in my Win 7 Home, it comes up with Oriental characters and I have no way of turning them to English.

I installed it several months ago on my Win7 HTPC as Firefox didn’t play nice with one of the streaming services i subscribe to.  I’ve been running it during this time, alternating with Firefox.  I see no difference between the two for my purposes which are limited to streaming Netflix, Amazon Prime, ESPN+ and a couple of other services.

Elly wrote:

The consideration about Chredge is that it checks automatically for updates, and that you might not want particular ‘features’.

That’s the deal-killer for me. Regarding Firefox, for example, more often than not I am holding off on their “latest and greatest” because it has introduced an unwanted change, either related to the UI or because Mozilla has decided to disable long-functioning and useful add-ons.

I’m not eager to replicate that experience with Chredge, so I’m passing on it. Hidden now on all my Win7 systems that have been offered it.

Let me decide if and when to update the browser, at my own pace, and I might let you install it on my PC.

Canadian Tech wrote:

RIGHT-click on the update, choose Hide.

Why should I ? What does hide change ?

I found it strange for Microsoft to even bother but then again it probably wasn’t hard to make Edge Chromium run on Windows 7. Chromium engine runs on a lot of operating systems including Linux. This is mostly why Microsoft adopted Chromium engine for its broad support of desktop OS. The way Microsoft engineered Edge legacy it made it nearly impossible to back support it to Windows 7 or 8. Microsoft finally learned that more platform support is good for products. You have a lot of Windows 7 users in poorer countries who run it on older hardware that doesn’t support Windows 10.

For alternate Chromium but not Chrome browsers, I use Brave. Been getting on quite fine with it.

Just a shame it doesn’t have the toolbar & Page Title, that I miss from IE.