![]() ![]() These audiences have informed the investments we have made in Internet Explorer in the past, and now inform the investments we make in Microsoft Edge. Historically, Microsoft has focused on three primary constituencies: end-users, developers, and enterprises/organizations. Our intent is profoundly informed by our context. Our plan is to engage in a way that embraces the well-established open source model that’s been working effectively for years: meaningful and positive contributions which align with long-standing thoughtfully-designed architecture, collaborative engineering, and keeping in mind that we, together as a community, seek the best outcome for all people who use the web across many devices. We’ve written down our “OSS Principles for Microsoft Edge” below and “What Happens Next” to clearly outline our approach to contributions. In that context, we have been thinking through plans 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 its developers, and we’re now ready to move forward.Īs part of this, we hope and intend to become a significant contributor to Chromium, in a way that can make not just Microsoft Edge - but other browsers as well - better on both PCs and other devices. ANGLE, Web Audio, Brotli) and we’ve begun making contributions to the Chromium project to help move browsing forward on new ARM-based Windows devices. We’ve also used open source for various features of Microsoft Edge on the desktop (e.g. ![]() ![]() Our new mobile browser has been based on open source from its beginnings over a year ago. Working with open source is not new for Microsoft Edge. And of course, we and all those audiences care primarily about the end-user, who is ultimately the audience this work is intended to benefit. The audiences we think will find this document most relevant and useful are (a) the people working on Chromium as approvers/maintainers and leading that project (b) the companies and engineers who build other browsers and will be interested in the contributions we plan to make, and (c) the broader community of web developers, corporate IT managers and partners we work with on Windows and Microsoft Edge. This document exists to clarify our thinking on how that work will proceed: we want to explain our plans and intentions related to Microsoft Edge and the Chromium open-source project. We are starting down a path to adopt Chromium open source in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop, becoming a larger contributor and user of its open source so that we can create better web compatibility for our customers and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers. That said, Edge still has a long way to go if it wants to catch up with Chrome.Microsoft Edge and Chromium Open Source: Our Intentįor 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. Microsoft has a decent usage share with its browser, and this move may give it a boost. When installing the browser via Microsoft Update, Windows will automatically migrate settings, bookmarks and other features, which should help to make the upgrade a smooth process.īeing part of Microsoft Update could put the improved Edge in the hands of many more users. (Some users report that Edge is actually less resource-intensive than Chrome.) It also can now run extensions, which are hosted on the Microsoft Store. Having a shared codebase with Chrome, Edge is now more similar to Google’s browser - compatibility with websites is improved, as is performance. Now, a complete version of the refreshed Edge is available as part of Windows Update, making it easier for everyday users to experience the new features and optimized performance. It’s been available to users since January, but Microsoft only hosted it as a manual download, and it lacked some important features. ![]() But last year, the company rebuilt the browser from the ground up, this time with Google’s open source Chromium framework rather than its proprietary EdgeHTML engine. Edge, Microsoft’s replacement for its often-criticized Internet Explorer was first released in 2015. ![]()
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