Microsoft’s Edge browser is the default browser in Windows 10. It’s updated twice a year alongside new Windows 10 feature updates, but some people think that cadence of updating is too slow. Google Chrome and Firefox are updated very often with new features and changes, but Edge is stuck being updated alongside Windows 10.
Of course it should. A browser should be updated way more often than twice a year. Especially earlier in its existence, Edge had several annoying bugs that were probably fixed rather quickly, but then took months and months to actually reach me, at which point I had already moved back to Chrome. Edge is a lot less buggy these days, and I’m back to using it full time, but I still want it updated more often.
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Until that abomination can be turned off, it’s not even worth being called a browser.
I hear it is available in Insider builds, so it will make to the production version at some point.
As long as Edge is not multi platform, it’s not worth my time. I run Windows, Linux and macOS at the same time and I depend on software being available on multiple platforms.
A couple of years ago, I had hoped Microsoft would open source Edge and make it available on Mac and Linux but I don’t think that’s going to happen anymore.
I have a low power Windows machine that runs a few important tasks, and it makes far more sense to admin them locally with Edge than use some other browser that is slower and uses more memory.
Browser fidelity is fine so long as it isn’t counterproductive
It is multi-platform, but not the platforms you want. You can get Edge for iOS and Android.
That’s not really Edge, though. It’s just Webkit/Blink with an Edge skin. (just like Firefox for iOS).
It should also be ported to different OSes. If Microsoft are serious about Edge competing with Chrome and Firefox, they need to fight them on all fronts. Edge, therefore, needs a MacOS and a GNU/Linux port.
For the last fifteen years, I have used the Microsoft browser only at work because the IT Department had standardized on Windows-Explorer-Office. Whenever there was another browser blessed by the IT Department, I switched to it.
Outside of work, I have used Chrome, Firefox, and Opera over these years. And I have used the Microsoft browser only when needed by a website (which was coded only for that browser).
For the last five years, I have “installed” the portable version of the browser I desired to use. I like the capability of simply erasing/wiping out the drive/folder in which the browser resides to delete tracking tools. Switching browser is a breeze. Also, there are no hidden and undeletable folders growing on my system drive in the TEMP folder as it has been the case with Microsoft Explorer.
As I am still using Windows 7 based systems, and that Edge is not available for Windows 7, then I don’t really care whether Edge is updated only alongside Windows 10 or on a monthly basis.
As to what I’ll do after Windows 7 reaches its EOL? It will likely not be Windows 10.
it’s still subpar to everything non microsoft. It’s just another IE…
I use brave for the most part right now, chrome as a backup. Before I click edge, i’ll choose opera, firefox, maxthon, safari, flock, etc.
If MS made it so that the only browsers that worked with windows were IE & Edge, I would abandon windows altogether.
The best update they can do to microsoft edge, is abandon it, and support one of the better alternatives.
Microsoft drop their entire OS, and rather go the BSD route? YES.
No tróller please.
Support only one platform. Tie updates to the updates of said platform.
In theory it should help them a lot in concentrating their resources on catch-up with competition. However, they still fail. Standard support still lags behind. Key usability features are still missing.
The question is, who needs Edge? Who needs Binge?
The sad reality for Microsoft is, only their defaults (and additional nagging if you try to divert) on the Windows platform as well as tie-ins with other Microsoft Software really make people use their offerings. The people who don’t change their desktop wallpaper. It must be frustrating to be an Edge developer.
Edited 2018-07-04 14:04 UTC
My workplace used Internet Explorer for years, because of all the websites that only work with IE.
Just last month, we finally switched to Google Chrome, but were told to keep using IE for certain websites that only work with it. yes, we still have sites that use Microsoft Silverlight, which Edge doesn’t support.
Sadly for me, the IT security decided to not allow any of the sync features on Google Chrome. Which makes it a bit annoying.
For the sake of web developers and end users it would be a great help if Edge were a “true” evergreen browser with a more regular update rhythm independent of Windows.
Edited 2018-07-04 18:11 UTC