Microsoft‘s new browser, Edge, is having quite the success, although people are still not neglecting Chrome. Microsoft officially launched this new web browser, based on Chromium, last January. The new Edge Chromium promised to be a multiplatform browser, a browser with which to conquer all kinds of users. One of Microsoft’s promises was to bring its new browser to Linux systems, a promise that, in January, was not kept. However, it appears that the company has kept its word, and now, 10 months later, it is going to come true.
The new Edge is including in its code a large number of features from other browsers, both the original Chrome and Brave, Opera and Firefox . It even recovers exclusive functions and features of Internet Explorer before this browser dies and falls into oblivion. Microsoft is certainly doing a great job with it.
Now that the browser is well advanced in development, Microsoft has set to work to bring its browser to all users, as promised. And Linux users will finally be able to download the new Internet Explorer very soon.
Edge Comes to Linux in October
A few hours ago, Microsoft confirmed the release date of its new Edge Chromium to Linux . Although this browser has already been seen in action before, it will not be until next month, in October , when any Linux user will be able to download and use this browser as an alternative to Chrome, Chromium or Firefox, the three most used browsers.
In a couple of weeks, the new Edge will land on the Dev channel for Linux , being available to everyone. However, we cannot know for sure when this browser will jump to its stable branch, although this is expected to happen, if all goes well, by the end of the year.
The new Edge will bring to Linux the same functions and features that we can find in both Windows and macOS. Especially advanced memory management and professional development features like WebView2 and the extension for Visual Studio Code . And, of course, we can play the Surf minigame on Linux.
Microsoft and Linux increasingly united
For years, Microsoft and Linux have had a very heated rivalry. However, lately the waters have not only calmed down, but right now the two collaborate with each other on a large number of projects. Microsoft is one of the companies that invests the most money in the Linux community, and is also bringing all kinds of its own software (Edge, Visual Studio, etc.) to this other operating system. What’s more, thanks to WSL, the Windows subsystem for Linux, this operating system can now run on top of Windows 10, allowing us to use its programs without having to resort to a virtual machine.
We wonder what will be the next product that Microsoft will launch open source and bring equally to Linux users. Xbox on Linux? XCloud? Time will tell.
