Wednesday, June 17th 2020
Microsoft Fall 2020 Windows 10 Update will Make the New Edge Browser the Default Option
Microsoft has released its Chromium-based Edge browser some time ago and it is already capturing the market. Just in April of this year, it became the world's second most popular web-browser, just behind Google Chrome. Surpassing even Mozilla's Firefox web-browser, the new Edge is rising in popularity very quickly. So far, Microsoft gave an option for Windows 10 users to just download the new browser if they want to, or the only Edge browser you had would be the old version based on the EdgeHTML engine. Even though Microsoft has recently decided to start rolling out the new Chromium-based browser via OS updates, the old version could still find its way in the OS and there wouldn't be a new one present. Starting with update 20H2, Microsoft is bundling the new browser with OS update, making it a default option in the OS.
While the new browser is going to replace old Edge for default opening of links or some files like PDF, the old Edge will still be present. A lot of legacy applications are relying on opening some of their stuff in the old browser, and there sure would be problems if it would be gone. Additionally, gone are the year plus month names for Windows 10 updates, like 1803, 1903, and 1909. Now you get a year plus the first or second half of the year. For example, the next update is 20H2 (second half of 2020), and the one after it is 21H1 (first half of 2021). This is done to avoid confusion and with this Microsoft announced that updates will be faster in general.
Source:
ComputerBase.de
While the new browser is going to replace old Edge for default opening of links or some files like PDF, the old Edge will still be present. A lot of legacy applications are relying on opening some of their stuff in the old browser, and there sure would be problems if it would be gone. Additionally, gone are the year plus month names for Windows 10 updates, like 1803, 1903, and 1909. Now you get a year plus the first or second half of the year. For example, the next update is 20H2 (second half of 2020), and the one after it is 21H1 (first half of 2021). This is done to avoid confusion and with this Microsoft announced that updates will be faster in general.
70 Comments on Microsoft Fall 2020 Windows 10 Update will Make the New Edge Browser the Default Option
The fines for this and other things should have been far, far higher. Ditto Intel's various 'co-marketing' ruses, and 'genuine Intel' stuff.
This latest move will likely be challenged, and probably cost them a fair amount of dough ... but again it's unlikely to get anywhere near the advantage gained.
Microsoft is right to ship its Windows 10 with the best browser available there, instead of doing it with IE 11 or old Edge which are both not ok.
User who dislike this new policy, are always free to move to other OSes.
But even Android feels better with Edge rather than Chrome.
Still, EdgeHTML will live on for some time.Or use another browser, for that matter. No one is being forced to use Edge after all.
Not everyone has their own software repository in a secondary drive or knows how to use the command line to get what they need.
Hell, some don't even know that Microsoft Office doesn't come with Microsoft Windows.
Yeah hell Fck No!.
Its about time Google lost it's immunity as seen as it want's to silence particular people.
Edit: Let me clarify, I don't think an update should be able to change your default browser to Edge Chromium! I just feel that when you do a fresh Windows install having Edge Chromium as the default is way better than having old Edge as the default or IE(any flavor) for that matter.
So much noise over OS shipping with a browser, it's incredible. At this day and age, the browser is a necessary utility and lack of it would be blasphemous, not including it. If you don't like that default, just install another. Nobody is pushing you to use it.
Complaining about "make default" suggestions? That's plain standard in browser world. Install any browser, it will ask to be default until you shut it down in settings. Plus, how about Google pushing its Chrome whenever I visit Google.com or Gmail.com??
You guys need to wake the hell up. There is no "good" company and MS is not the villain in this movie. They are all businesses.
A side note here: I've been using the new Edge since probably a month ago and I love it. Also switched to it in Android, where it works pretty much flawlessly with the best interface among mobile browsers IMO.
I am integrated to Office 365 and Onedrive due to work and I just realized you can now access (after the last update) Office 365 right from the start page of Edge. It's great for productivity.
PDF reader? How about no? FF and pretty much every modern browser can read PDF.
Why TF isn't Edge just an uninstallable module, disabled by default?
And frankly, I don't think a lot of people care. People have been willing to sacrifice things that could be considered sacred for reasons that others would think illogical or stupid.
My mother, for starters, would qualify in that group. She's careful about what she does with her devices in terms of security (no installing random crap, user account with limited privileges, no opening random email attachments, etc.), but I had a talk with her regarding privacy and after nearly 20 minutes into the conversation she pretty much told me that it was an acceptable trade-off for the convenience.Heh, and here I was about to make a whole damn speech, but you just had to come in with a simple yet super-effective reply lol
This is Microsoft again showing for all to see that they are complete butt-nuggets...
Luckily, those of us running LTSB/LTSC don't have to deal with this crap..