Microsoft announced Friday that it has temporarily suspended stable channel updates for its Edge browser. The American giant explains on his blog that he made this decision "in the current global context" marked by the consequences of the Covid-19 epidemic. The company says the choice "comes from a desire to limit the additional impact on web developers and organizations that are also affected."
Update on Stable channel releases for Microsoft Edge https://t.co/VmG6iXIlOQ
- Windows Blogs (@windowsblog) March 21, 2020The company co-founded by Bill Gates also specifies that this measure was implemented "in coherence with the Chromium project, which recently decided on a similar pause following planning adjustments". The site indeed points out that Edge has been "based on Chromium for several months now".
Chrome also affected
Version 80 of the browser will continue to benefit from security and stability updates, Microsoft said. As for the previous channels such as Canary, Dev or Beta, they too will be updated at the rate initially planned. However, "Microsoft Edge 81 will not switch to a stable version until we have relaunched the updates," informs the Redmond company.
Microsoft's browser is much less used than its rival Google’s Chrome. This last link:
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