Taking a page from the Google book, Microsoft is accelerating the release schedule for its Edge browser and will release updates every four weeks instead of six weeks, the company said. announced Friday.
If reading this gave you dit’s already gone, it may be because Google made a similar announcement Last week in which stated which is accelerating the Chrome release cycle to – you guessed it – every four weeks, instead of six weeks from the third quarter of 2021.
“As contributors to the Chromium project, we look forward to the new 4-week main release cycle that Google announced to help deliver this innovation to our customers even faster,” said Microsoft in a blog post.
That way, Edge users will have faster access to new features and security patches from Microsoft. And since, from 2020, Edge was rebuilt on Google’s open source browser project, Chromium, combining its launch schedule with that of Chrome makes it easier to keep the two browsers in sync.
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The new schedule will take effect with the Edge 94, which is scheduled to a September release. Also following Google’s example, Microsoft is offering its corporate customers the option of a longer, more manageable release cycle, which translates into a release every eight weeks along with biweekly security updates for “the most important fixes” . However, the four-week cycle will be the default, according to Microsoft.
How The Verge points out, another popular web browser, Brave, which is also based on Chromium, is adjusting to fit the new four-week schedule as well.
I say that Microsoft has the right idea if it contributes to a more perfect online experience. Collaborating with Google seems to work much better for Edge than trying to go head-to-head with Chrome for its predecessor, the beleaguered and often derided Internet Explorer.