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Edge support on Server OS?
Thank youconalw and blomsterharry. We are working on bring Microsoft Edge to as many platforms as we can. We just released for macOS this week. It would help us understand the priority of various platforms if you could give us an idea of what scenarios we would unblock for you by bringing the browser to the various versions of Server. Thanks in advance for the feedback.
Now that the beta has been released, I took the Enterprise .msi version and installed it on my Windows Server 2019 machine. It installed with no problems, but upon running it complains about Administrative mode. While annoying, after pressing X it runs smoothly.
Just a little bit more effort from Microsoft and we might get a decent Microsoft browser on Windows Server finally, that could replace IE. One thing I'm afraid is, if Microsoft eventually makes it a Microsoft Store app only, it's dead -- as Microsoft Store is not supported on Server.
you can read more about it in this blog post:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/What-we-re-hearing-from-you/m-p/811931
IMO it won't become a store app ever. because it doesn't need store to update, for example you can see recently in Windows insider that notepad has became a store app for better and and faster updates but the new Edge has a built in update procedure that takes care of itself. also because it is a universal multi platform program.