Microsoft’s new Edge browser on Windows 10.

Where Edge differs is new features like Collections, which allows you to collate images and content from the web, and tracking prevention.

The good thing is the rest of Edge is very similar to Chrome and even includes support for Chrome extensions. Microsoft is planning to have these missing sync features available later this year. Both history sync and extension sync are missing at launch, but things like favourites, settings, addresses / contact info, and passwords will all sync. While Edge Chromium is available today, it’s also launching without some features you might be familiar with if you’re used to using Chrome. An ARM64 version of Edge won’t be available today, but it’s expected to come to the stable channel shortly. Microsoft will eventually bake this directly into a future Windows 10 update, and it will be part of Windows 10X for foldable and dual-screen devices.

Microsoft is also releasing this version of Edge to OEMs today, so expect to see machines start arriving in the back-to-school period with the new version of Edge preinstalled. The company is taking a slow and careful approach, bringing the new Edge gradually to groups of Windows 10 users through Windows Update before it’s fully rolled out to everyone in the summertime. In the coming months, Microsoft plans to automatically update Windows 10 users with this new version of Edge which will fully replace the existing built-in browser.

Microsoft is initially targeting Edge at enterprise users of Windows and macOS, but consumers will be able to manually download and install it, too. A stable version of the browser is now available for everyone to download, just over a year after the software maker revealed its plans to switch to Chromium. Microsoft is officially launching its new Edge Chromium browser today across both Windows and macOS.

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