Taking a page from Google’s book, Microsoft is speeding up the release
schedule for its Edge browser and will issue updates every four weeks
instead of six weeks, the company announced Friday (3-12-21).
If reading that gave you déjà vu, that might be because Google issued a
similar announcement last week in which it stated that it’s
accelerating Chrome’s release cycle to - you guessed it - every four weeks
instead of six weeks starting in Q3 2021.
“As contributors to the Chromium project, we look forward to the new 4-week
major release cycle cadence that Google announced to help deliver that
innovation to our customers even faster,” Microsoft said in a blog post.
This way, Edge users will gain faster access to Microsoft’s new features and
security patches. And since, as of 2020, Edge has been rebuilt in Google’s
open-source browser project Chromium, matching its release schedule with
Chrome’s makes it easier to keep the two browsers in sync.
The new schedule will go into effect with Edge 94, which is currently slated
for a September release. Also following Google’s lead, Microsoft is offering
its enterprise customers the option of a longer, more manageable release
cycle, which translates to a release every eight weeks along with biweekly
security updates for “the most important fixes.” However, the four-week
cycle will be the default, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft’s got the right idea if it makes for a more seamless online
experience. Collaborating with Google seems to be working out for Edge a lot
better than attempting to go toe-to-toe with Chrome did for its predecessor,
the beleaguered and often ridiculed Internet Explorer.
Credit: gizmodo.com
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