Microsoft Edge finally lands on Linux in October

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Microsoft Edge finally lands on Linux in October

Preview Microsoft Edge fror Linux version will be available next month

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The revamped version of Microsoft Edge is set to be released on Linux in October, so there really isn’t long to wait now – at least for the initial test version.

 

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed that the preview version of Edge for Linux will be out next month and users will be able to grab the browser either from the Edge Insider website or via the native package installer for their particular Linux distro.

 

Speaking in his opening keynote at the company's Microsoft Ignite event, Nadella confirmed that Edge would be coming to Linux soon - but provided little extra detail.

 

How will the browser be implemented on Linux? Exactly the same as it is on Windows and macOS already, so you can expect to benefit from all the same features – except for Windows-specific bells and whistles (like Internet Explorer mode).

 

We’ve known for some time that Edge has been inbound for Linux, with Microsoft confirming this was the case almost a year ago at the last Ignite conference. So it’s taken some time for the app to finally arrive.

Edging out the competition?

 

Edge has been given a pretty warm reception on Windows 10, at least by the folks who have adopted the revamped Chromium-based web browser, and there’s no denying it’s a big step forward from the original Windows 10-only version.

 

 

It’ll certainly be good for Linux users to make up their own minds about Edge, and it’ll obviously be yet more users for Microsoft – although in that quest, the dangerous territory the software giant has been treading with Windows 10 is pushing rather too hard on plugging the browser on services like OneDrive and even within the operating system itself.

 

 

With the preview version soon to arrive, hopefully if there aren’t many snags found, we can expect the release version on Linux shortly thereafter.

 

 

Microsoft Edge finally lands on Linux in October

 

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Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

 

 

This means Linus Torvalds has definitely won, doesn't it?

 

 

Ignite Microsoft will release its Edge browser for Linux next month, initially through the browser's Dev preview channel.

 

The Windows giant, which has warmed to Linux in recent years, made the announcement at its Ignite 2020 conference, conducted virtually this week on account of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

"Our mission to bring Microsoft Edge to the platforms our customers use daily takes its next step: starting in October, Microsoft Edge on Linux will be available to download on the Dev preview channel," said veep Liat Ben-Zur in a blog post. "When it’s available, Linux users can go to the Microsoft Edge Insiders site to download the preview channel, or they can download it from the native Linux package manager."

 

Initially, Microsoft will provide Edge for Linux through Debian and Ubuntu distributions, with others to follow.

 

Back in January, when Microsoft emitted its first version of Edge based on Google's Chromium open-source project for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows, a Linux build was conspicuously absent. Its arrival next month represents an effort to provide corporate customers with a way to offer a single browser across a varied set of employee devices.

 

Ben-Zur said "an independent study by NSS Labs" suggested Edge is "more secure than Chrome for businesses on Windows 10." Google Chrome, however, has far more market share: about 65 per cent globally by one measure, with Edge at 2.3 per cent.

 

Microsoft said its programmers have made 3,700 commits to the Chromium engine to date. That's up from 3,000 the company reported in May at its virtual Build show.

 

In the coming months, the Edge Dev channel will also deliver improved developer tools in the form of WebView2, an SDK and runtime for putting web content in native applications, and the 1.0 release of the Visual Studio Code extension, currently offered as a preview.

 

Microsoft sees WebView2 as a way to make web content available in native apps and on devices in customer environments where Edge isn't available, such as those not connected to Windows Update or not managed by Microsoft.

 

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[steven36]

EDGE  is just  a  another wrapper  to a  browser that started out  on Linux  to begin with

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Webkit was a kde project. It was written for Linux and took over the world when Apple and Google based their browsers on it.

Naturally it has morphed a fair bit since then, but I thinks its fair to call it a dominant linux browser.

 

 

If they didn't  have  Windows it wouldn't even have  the tiny market share it does.  Google's Chromium it comes in some distros as a default browser instead of Firefox . In reality  only  forks  of  Webkit that been successful is  Google  and Apple.

 

You take Google for instance they  dont allow  there employees to run Windows . They use Mac OS  and if you dont  want to use it they have Goobuntu it's  there own fork of Ubuntu LTS. Most big tech  outfits make  there  own forks of Linux.  I wish the Government was that smart but there  stupid and having to force M$ to patch  a  0 day on Windows  .  On Linux  you simply commit it to what ever distro you use and it gets patched . Sercuity updates 5 days a week they take weekends off.

 

PS:  M$  giveth  and they taketh  away  . This is just history  repeating itself  there  sort of back to 1999    the 1st browser wars IE 5  was cross platform  ,  Only reason it was not forked  to Linux is because it was  mostly  used by college students  and hackers back then it had no business value much in 1999 .    1st time i ever seen Linux  was  when  i took  my PC to a repair  shop in the early 2000s the guy that worked  on PCs   was sitting  there using it.  It took them  all these  years  after  having bad management that was over IE 6  and newer  to stop only shipping  Windows only browsers again .  All the others  except  for Apple has Linux Browser  .There Browser  use to be cross platform even .

 

Typical  M$  they take a 22 year old concept and  push it out as new , They  always  reinventing  the wheel  and  fouling it up in the process.   It like when they removed the start menu  in windows 8  that concept predates any windows older  than Windows 95  and everybody had grown  accustom to a start menu that was a concept since 1995  so everyone hated  it . They try to reinvent the   start menu  it been nothing  but a bug fest  since 2015.

 

EDGE  itself  is trying reinvent the wheel  only benefit it has over  its bother Google the devil for consumers   is it has Play Ready DRM  and that's only  a benefit  if you have have hardware and internet fast enough  to stream 4k . Well they be any different than Google on Linux  and  patch there  DRM to play over 720p ?  I doubt it  .This promotes  piracy  and stops legal services from gaining maximum profit even if you can use a addon to  make it play 1080p . Just like YouTube promotes piracy by not using DRM on music artists content.  On android  Google DRM can play 4k   they use apps even KODI  and it plays 4k like butter and the hardware is much cheaper  and that why most TV Boxes  are Android. I noticed RedFox has software now to remove Goggle's DRM but  they have a long way to go to catch up with release groups  that use Android  to crack it . It full  of bugs  and missing  features.

 

For anything else other than if you are a business that pay for other M$ services it has 0 value over the others. Linux is not  Windows . Browsers that  run bad on Linux do good on Windows. And Browsers that  are not so good on  Windows run good on Linux.   Same with Games  like that company they bought to put more games on XBOX  . That Companies games never have worked good on consoles  they only worked good on Windows  so nothing really changes  unless they can change the way they make games. That company  game quality has went to  because of poor management  and they were not making a killer profit anymore and that why they sold it.  The whole thing has to be restructured .  And that's a year  off before they even start on trying to fix it.