Microsoft to switch legacy Edge in April with Chromium-based model

Microsoft has instructed clients that the April cumulative replace for Home windows 10 — the one slated to reach on April 13, that month’s “Patch Tuesday” — will take away the unique, and now outdated, Edge browser and substitute it with the newer Chromium-based Edge that debuted a yr in the past.

Customers who settle for April’s replace, which is able to embody, as does each Patch Tuesday replace, the month’s fixes for safety flaws, will then additionally obtain Chromium Edge and lose the legacy Edge. The older browser launched in mid-2015 because the default browser for Home windows 10.

Skipping the April replace will do no good, as each cumulative replace issued after April 13 will even embody the old-Edge-gone new-Edge-here course of.

The April replace will finish the transition from the legacy Edge to the Chromium-based browser, which was first launched in its “Secure” channel on Jan. 15, 2020.

In August 2020, Microsoft spelled out a lot of how it could finish legacy Edge’s life, together with the March 9, 2021, date of the ultimate safety replace launch. The Redmond, Wash. developer didn’t, nevertheless, set a elimination date for the older, homegrown model of Edge.

Gadgets powered by Home windows 10 20H2 — the improve that launched in October 2020 — already run the Chromium Edge, so the browser won’t be reinstalled. As an alternative, the April cumulative replace will solely scrub the system of the legacy Edge.