admin Microsoft recently launched its new Edge browser based on Google’s Chromium open source project. We can download Chromium Edge now for Windows 7, 8, 10, and macOS directly from microsoft.com/edge in more than 90 languages. The important feature for most users will be the Chrome extension support and these extensions that have been ported over to Edge can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store, by default. Additionally, the Edge has an option to allow extensions from other stores to get Chrome extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
Microsoft plans to targeted at businesses. That means AAD support, Internet Explorer mode, and Microsoft Search in Bing integration. Business and education IT administrators can download offline packages and policies for Chromium Edge. Many businesses already use Chrome and at least one Microsoft browser (Internet Explorer and/or Edge) — Microsoft is hoping these features will get them to switch to using just Chromium Edge.
Microsoft has yet to lay out which features will ship in Edge 80, Edge 81, and so on and a spokesperson said developers and users should use the beta releases as an indication. If you want to peek at the pipeline, download one of the Edge Insider Channels: Beta (updated every six weeks), Dev (updated weekly), or Canary (updated daily). Insider builds can be installed side by side with Edge stable.
Additionally, Microsoft Edge has a fresh logo. For the first time in decades, Microsoft’s browser is not denoted with a blue “e” — the logo is a wave, presumably for “surfing” the web. Installing the new Edge: For Windows 10 and don’t install Edge manually, you’ll eventually get it in a future update. Microsoft plans to start rolling out the new Edge “in the coming weeks,” starting with a subset of Windows Insiders in the Release Preview ring. The process will ramp up to more users “over the next several months.” It will be made gradually available on Windows Update and offered to additional devices “as data and feedback indicate that users are having a good experience.” Microsoft currently has no plans to automatically upgrade Managed, Enterprise, Education, or Workstation Pro Edition devices (documentation). If you want to block automatic delivery of the new Edge to Home and Pro devices, you can do so either via policies or the Blocker Toolkit.
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