With a page from Google’s book, Microsoft is accelerating the release schedule for its Edge browser and will be releasing updates every four weeks instead of six weeks. Announced Friday.
If you have read it dyes vu, it could be because Google issued a similar announcement last week what it says 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 four-week release cycle cadences that Google has announced to help deliver faster to our customers,” Microsoft said in a blog post.
This way, Edge users have faster access to Microsoft’s new features and security solutions. And since, from 2020, Edge has been rebuilt in Google’s open-source browser project Chromium, which is in line with its Chrome release scheme, making it easier to keep the two browsers in tune.
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The new schedule will take effect with Edge 94, which is currently being planned a September release. Following Google, Microsoft is offering its enterprise customers the option of a longer, more manageable release cycle, which is released every eight weeks, along with fortnightly security updates for ‘the most important solutions’. According to Microsoft, however, the four-week cycle will be the standard.
As the edge points out, another popular web browser, Brave, which is also based on Chromium, is adapting to fit the new four-week schedule as well.
I say Microsoft has the right idea as it provides a more seamless online experience. The collaboration with Google looks much better for Edge than trying to go against Chrome against Chrome, it did for its predecessor, the beleagured and often ridiculous Internet Explorer.