Windows 10 Redstone 3 to Bring New Major Browser Feature

[CrAKeN]

 

Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 Creators Update

 

Windows 10 Redstone 3 is scheduled to launch in September, and just like the Creators Update, it’s expected to introduce a bunch of new major features on PCs (the future of mobile is still uncertain right now, and there are rumors that focus on smartphones could drop completely until the fall).

 

One of these features appears to be aimed at Microsoft Edge, as according to a new report, the software giant wants to start delivering updates for the browser through the Windows Store.

 

Why is this so important? First and foremost, Microsoft Edge is currently updated only when new OS releases are getting the go-ahead. This means twice every year, as per Microsoft’s Windows 10 update schedule, as the operating system is now receiving major updates in March and September.

 

More frequent updates

Already used in the past, when Edge received extension support in the Anniversary Update and tab improvements, more Flash controls, and a bunch of other features in the Creators Update, this strategy is keeping Microsoft’s new browser behind rivals, which are getting updates at a much faster pace, in most of the cases monthly or even more frequently.

 

With Windows 10 Redstone 3, all of these could finally change, as Microsoft wants to deliver updates for Edge through the Windows Store, so users won’t have to wait until a new OS version goes live to get these improvements.

 

This is possible because Edge itself is developed as a universal app, so shipping updates can be done through the Store more often if needed. Most likely, Microsoft will adopt a strategy similar to other apps like Office and Groove Music, with improvements first shipped to insiders and then to users in the production ring when testing is complete.

 

More information could be provided by Microsoft at the Build developer conference this month, but there’s no doubt this is the better strategy, especially because Edge is still trailing behind its rivals in terms of features.

 

Third-party data puts Google Chrome on the first spot with nearly 60 percent market share on the desktop, while Edge is far behind with just 5 percent.

 

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[steven36]

Redstone  3 will be just  just be another beta released in the Wild disguised as GA . They use consumers  as Guinea pigs/Beta testers for Enterprise's latter use . When RS2 was released they waited tell millions forced  installed  it to find out the bugs in the release and then they started blocking it on live updates . Enterprises on  CBB wait like  3 months or longer too deploy new versions of Windows 10 after Microsoft is done with the consumer Guinea pigs and they get most of the bugs out of it. 

 

And Enterprises on LTSB  dont have too update for 10 years unless they buy new CPUs or PCs and they only get a new major release every 3 or 4 years . The problem is most Insiders use newer hardware  because they are techies and the older you're hardware is the most likely the bugs want be found tell the 2nd round of Beta testing by the  consumer disguised as a stable release .

 

Microsoft has 18  months  too  get the bugs out  this means they could block you from getting 3 versions  on live updates if they wanted too . In  2020  extended support  ends  . It means 1 of 2 things . 1. Ether they decide to make a new  version of windows or 2. you will have too buy windows 10 again too get new versions.   Windows 10 users most likely want know there fate tell 2019..

[pc71520]

On 1/5/2017 at 4:28 PM, CrAKeN said:

Third-party data puts Google Chrome on the first spot with nearly 60 percent market share on the desktop, while Edge is far behind with just 5 percent.

And somewhere in between, Firefox stands...

[Holmes]

The only part of this article that they could be referring to as a new major browser feature is there going to release new updates to edge to the windows store and update it faster thats not a new major browser feature not to me anyway.  If they updated the browser update module then it would be a major new browser feature or Major new update to the browser nice click bait.