Microsoft Accelerates Edge Release Cycle to Every Four Weeks

Taking a page from Google’s book, Microsoft is speeding up its Edge browser’s release schedule and will release updates every four weeks instead of six, the company announced Friday.

If the reading that gave you dalready seen, this may be because Google posted a similar ad Last week in which he declared that it speeds up Chrome’s release cycle to – you guessed it – every four weeks instead of six weeks from Q3 2021.

“As contributors to the Chromium project, we look forward to the new 4-week major launch cycle cadence that Google has announced to help deliver this innovation to our customers even faster,” Microsoft said in a blog post.

This way, Edge users will have faster access to new features and security fixes from Microsoft. And since, from 2020, Edge has been rebuilt in Google Chromium’s open-source browser project, by matching its release schedule with that of Chrome, it’s easier to sync the two browsers.

The new schedule will go into effect with Edge 94, which is currently slated for a September version. Also following Google’s lead, Microsoft is offering its corporate customers the option of a longer and more manageable release cycle, which results in a release every eight weeks with security updates every two weeks. for “the most important fixes”. However, the four-week cycle will be the default cycle, according to Microsoft.

As the edge points out, another popular web browser, Brave, also based on Chromium, also adapts to the new four-week schedule.

I’m saying Microsoft has the right idea if this makes for a more seamless online experience. Collaborating with Google seems to work a lot better for Edge than trying to go head-to-head with Chrome for its predecessor, the beleaguered and often ridiculed Internet Explorer.