{"id":41767,"date":"2021-02-08T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T10:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=277fc61da1317e29bdaafa7bdc656b0d"},"modified":"2021-02-08T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T10:23:24","slug":"microsoft-will-remove-legacy-edge-browser-from-windows-10-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-will-remove-legacy-edge-browser-from-windows-10-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft will remove &#8216;Legacy Edge&#8217; browser from Windows 10 in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/authors\/bobby-hellard\">Bobby Hellard<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">8 Feb, 2021<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"short-teaser\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"combined-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body\">\n<p>Users of the original\u00a0version of Microsoft&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/web-browsers\/24526\/what-is-microsoft-edge\" >Edge<\/a>\u00a0browser have until April to upgrade before the tech giant kills if off completely. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Support for the\u00a0desktop application, now dubbed &#8216;Legacy Edge&#8217;, will end on 9 March before it is replaced by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/web-browser\/34760\/microsoft-just-redesigned-its-edge-browser-to-be-an-essential-business-tool\" >new Microsoft Edge<\/a>\u00a0browser a month later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--wysiwyg_see-related_plugin--><\/p>\n<p>\nThis move will not come as a surprise to many,\u00a0as the to kill off the old browser was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/infrastructure\/network-internet\/356807\/microsoft-to-end-internet-explorer-11-support-in-2021\" >\u00a0originally\u00a0announced in August 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The original version of Microsoft Edge, which first\u00a0launched in 2015,\u00a0failed to persuade users to ditch Chrome and Firefox and struggled to live up to the early success of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/infrastructure\/network-internet\/356807\/microsoft-to-end-internet-explorer-11-support-in-2021\" >Internet Explorer<\/a>, which also lost popularity to rival browsers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Edge 2.0, however, is built upon the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/chromium\/32681\/what-is-chromium\" >Chromium open source project<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; the same web rendering engine that powers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.com\/tags\/google-chrome\" >Google Chrome<\/a>, as opposed to EdgeHMTL that underpinned Internet Explorer.\u00a0The decision to use Chromium was to create a browser with better web compatibility for users and less complexity for developers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As such, the Legacy Edge\u00a0browser\u00a0will now be put to rest\u00a0completely, first with an update in March that removes support, before it&#8217;s ultimately\u00a0replaced with the\u00a0new Chromium-based Edge browser in April.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;To replace this out of support application [Legacy Edge], we are announcing that the new Microsoft Edge will be available as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/windows-10\" >Windows 10<\/a>\u00a0cumulative monthly security update &#8211; otherwise referred to as the Update Tuesday (or &#8216;B&#8217;) release &#8211; on April 13, 2021,&#8221; the tech giant said.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;The new Microsoft Edge offers built-in security and our best interoperability with the Microsoft security ecosystem, all while being more secure than Chrome for businesses on Windows 10,&#8221; the company added.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMicrosoft has stressed that Edge\u00a0won&#8217;t suddenly become the default browser if you&#8217;ve set Chrome as the preference, but there is no mention, as yet, about automatically migrating browser-related data, such as history or bookmarks. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>      Bobby Hellard<\/p>\n<p>        8 Feb, 2021    <\/p>\n<p>      Users of the original\u00a0version of Microsoft&#8217;s\u00a0Edge\u00a0browser have until April to upgrade before the tech giant kills if off completely. \u00a0<br \/>\nSupport for the\u00a0desktop application, now dubbed &#8216;Legacy Edg&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41768,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41767\/revisions\/41768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}