Tuesday, December 4th 2018
Microsoft to Kill off Edge Browser, Replace with its Own Chromium-derivative?
It looks like Microsoft is on a tactical retreat in the web-browser wars, with no amount of marketing integrated with Windows 10 dissuading users from using Google's near-monopolistic Chrome web-browser. Windows Central has come out with a sensational report that suggests that Microsoft could kill off the Edge web-browser that ships with Windows 10. It could try a different strategy against Chrome - designing a new web-browser that's derived from Chromium, the open-source foundation that supplies Chrome with key components. Much like Firefox, Chromium is heavily forked and customized by the OSS community.
Microsoft is internally calling this Chromium-based browser "Anaheim." The browser will be designed for both the x86 and ARM versions of Windows 10, and could be heavily differentiated from Edge and Internet Explorer, which could include a new branding, or perhaps even a significantly different user-interface from Edge. Microsoft could begin non-public community testing of "Anaheim" throughout 2019.
Source:
Windows Central
Microsoft is internally calling this Chromium-based browser "Anaheim." The browser will be designed for both the x86 and ARM versions of Windows 10, and could be heavily differentiated from Edge and Internet Explorer, which could include a new branding, or perhaps even a significantly different user-interface from Edge. Microsoft could begin non-public community testing of "Anaheim" throughout 2019.
92 Comments on Microsoft to Kill off Edge Browser, Replace with its Own Chromium-derivative?
Isn't it simply renamed IE after all?
It's a very good browser imo, them taking forever to enable extensions and only allowing them through the windows store kind of killed it. So I can see their reasoning behind this move.
As for extension support, I have all the ones that suit my needs. There don’t have to be 1,500 available just to be good.
Also, the Edge right now is pretty ok, but... MS could do better.Well, uBlock extension is in (has been for at least a year now), not sure about others.
If Microsoft wants to change marketshare, all it needs to due is sue Google for using their search dominance to promote Chrome on their services. That's the only reason why Chrome is #1: because Google remains #1 in search.
A more likely scenario is Microsoft offers two browser choices on Windows: UWP-based Edge and Chromium-based new browser. A lot of businesses still depend on Internet Explorer for old web apps and Microsoft wants to kill it for good but they can't. A cheaper alternative is to use Chromium with tweaks to replace Internet Explorer on Windows for backwards compatibility. Microsoft has vested interest in eliminating barriers to upgrading to Windows 10. ActiveX scripts and the like are a huge one for corporations.
pure clickbait and rumor mill