By taking a page from Google’s book, Microsoft is speeding up the release schedule for its Edge browser and will release updates every four weeks instead of six weeks. announced on Friday
If you read that, you have dseen already, that may be because Google made a similar announcement last week in which it stated that it speeds up Chrome’s 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 major 4-week release cycle announced by Google to deliver that innovation to our customers even faster,” Microsoft said. a blog post
This way, Edge users get faster access to Microsoft’s new features and security patches. Since then, from 2020Edge has been rebuilt in Google’s open-source browser project Chromium, making the release schedule consistent with Chrome’s, making it easier to keep the two browsers in sync.
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The new schedule will take effect with Edge 94, which is currently scheduled a release in SeptemberFollowing in the footsteps of Google, Microsoft is offering its business customers the option of a longer, more manageable release cycle, which translates into a release every eight weeks, along with biweekly security updates for “key fixes”. However, according to Microsoft, the four-week cycle is the default.
Like the edge points out that another popular web browser, Brave, which is also based on Chromium, is also adapting to the new four-week schedule.
I say Microsoft has the right idea when it comes to providing a more seamless online experience. Collaborating with Google seems to work out a lot better for Edge than trying to use Chrome with its predecessor, the beleaguered and often ridiculous Internet Explorer.