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The Software periodically checks for updates, and downloads and installs them for you…Microsoft may need to update your system to provide you with those updates. The Beta channel is “Coming soon” this channel gets updated every six weeks.Īfter taking a brief look at the EULA, found at, I quoted a couple of interesting excerpts: Currently only the developer channel can be downloaded the browser will get updated on a weekly basis.

Adding Microsoft’s PPA and signing their key via the terminal, then installing Edge with your package managerĭoing either method will require that you read and accept their EULA prior to download or viewing the terminal instructions.

Download and install the application via a.

Installation of the browser can be done in two ways: Unsurprisingly, Edge is also available for Arch users via the AUR. InstallationĪccording to the blog post announcing the release of Edge for Linux, the following distributions are supported: Whether you see Microsoft as friend or foe, my goal is to write this review without any bias towards either camp.

Second, the title of this review may have left some cringing, because they’re Microsoft haters. First, because as far as reviews go, I haven’t covered software before except games and distributions. Now, I ask that you bear with me as I take a look at this software. Really makes me think where we would be if Google hadn’t decided to open-source Chromium. I guess a company as well off as Microsoft can no longer compete in the web technology marketplace. However, as of the past two years or so, Edge is now using Google’s Blink engine. Originally codenamed “Spartan”, the browser was renamed to “Edge” in 2015 after the name of its original rendering engine (EdgeHTML). Man, times have changed at Microsoft ever since Satya Nadella took office. The first was Visual Studio Code in April 2015, Teams last year in December, and now this. So far, as I’m aware, this has been the third time Microsoft has released software for Linux. This is in addition to Edge being available for Windows, Xbox One, Mac OS, iOS, and Android. What is, however, is the fact that Microsoft Edge is now available for Linux as of October 20 - as a preview development release. The fact that Microsoft caved in to Google’s dominance when it comes to web standards isn’t new.