Microsoft preps enterprises for 8-week 'Extended Stable' version of Edge
By default, Edge is set to automatically get updates every four weeks beginning later this year. But companies who see that pace as too quick will have another option.
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By default, Edge is set to automatically get updates every four weeks beginning later this year. But companies who see that pace as too quick will have another option.
Microsoft, as expected, has synchronized the release schedule of its Edge browser with Chrome's, which Google had earlier announced would accelerate to an every-four-week cadence. "As contributors to the Chromium project, we look forward to the new 4-week major release cycle cadence that Google announced, to help deliver that innovation to our customers even faster," the Edge team wrote in an unsigned March 12 post to a company blog. The week prior, Google had declared that it would speed up the release tempo of Chrome to match that of Mozilla's Firefox by reducing the current six-to-eight-we...
Mar 14, 2021 11:40 EDT with 0 comments A bit of a printer mishap with Patch Tuesday, the ZeniMax acquisition now being official, and a farewell to Legacy Edge were all things that happened this week. You can find info about that, as well as much more below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of March 7 – 13. Patch Tuesday woes To the surprise of perhaps very few, Microsoft pushed out the main set of security updates to its supported variants of Windows right on cue, on the second Tuesday of the month. If you’re on a Windows 10 system, these updates are: May 2020 Update /
Users can opt for a four-week or eight-week release cadence with updates delivered in a timely fashion.
The 4-week update cycle for Microsoft Edge begins with v94 that will be released via the stable channel in the week of September 23, 2021.