Posted on Friday, December 07 2018 @ 16:08 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
In a new blog message,
Microsoft confirms it's dumping the current version of Edge in favor of a new release based on the Chromium engine. The software giant also revealed it's going to release Edge for the Mac.
For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility for our customers and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers.
As part of this, we intend to become a significant contributor to the Chromium project, in a way that can make not just Microsoft Edge — but other browsers as well — better on both PCs and other devices.
