Official: Microsoft Edge will be available on Linux

It is almost certain that Microsoft will bring Edge Chromium, one of the new web browser platforms built on the Chromium open source platform and is receiving great attention from the community, on Linux, along with it. are a few interesting features designed specifically for this operating system.

In the framework of the Ignite 2019 conference taking place in Florida, USA. Microsoft has confirmed it is developing a version of Edge Chromium specifically for Linux and will be released next year. Redmond has not announced the exact time, but it is likely that Edge Chromium Linux will appear in the spring of next year because in fact, versions for Windows 10, Windows 7 and macOS are all currently set. released: January 15, 2020.

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In general, there is still very little official information about Edge Chromium Linux, such as whether the features currently available on the Windows 10 version appear on the Linux version, or whether basic items like Whether your history, bookmarks, tabs, and other settings and settings are synced on your Linux version.

However, Edge Chromium on all platforms will be adding quite a lot of enterprise support features to Microsoft. For example, support to find colleagues, office addresses or even translate acronyms for company names . by entering keywords in the address bar of the browser.

The fact that Edge Chromium will appear on an open source operating system platform like Linux will undoubtedly help developers to easily build Edge-compatible websites and web applications, thereby benefiting. Competitive advantage for Microsoft itself, despite the fact that the potential audience is relatively small.