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MicrosoftSign in with a Google account - Discussion
Hey, everyone! Thanks so much for this discussion, we've learned a lot from your comments. We'd like to first make it clear that we do not plan to integrate Google services into Microsoft Edge by default. We are considering including an opt-in experience for users to attach their Google account to Microsoft Edge but are not ready to make a decision on it just yet.
I'd like to take this time to reiterate what Elliot posted back in November: One option available to you today to use a single user identifier across the various services you use is to create a new Microsoft Account using a @gmail address.
As you know, you can currently import your data from Chrome by going to edge://settings/importData. You can also sign into Google websites and remember your password in Microsoft Edge to reduce the number of times you need to sign in. Accessing your Microsoft Edge data on-the-go is easily done by signing into Microsoft Edge with a Microsoft account and syncing with Microsoft Edge across other devices and mobile.
As always, we will update here once we have more information. Please continue to provide your feedback and suggestions around this feature; the team will continue to review feedback even if we have moved something to Not Planned.
I'm part of people who need to use multiple accounts, and at the current moment I can't really get rid of chrome.
I have two browsers that I use: Chrome and Edge. I love edge (more like will love, waiting on that collections feature in the stable release) because of its features, but I can't live without chrome because of accounts. My organisation does not allow sync with a microsoft work account, which prevents me from saving anything and syncing from device to device, but allows sync of everything with a work google account. In my opinion, an option to log into a google account (integrated by putting the option to enable 3rd party account log ins in the setting) would be quite dandy as that would allow me to switch from 2 browsers to one. But if that can't be done, and microsoft is forced to integrate google as a whole into the edge browser, I'd rather not have the google account profiles.
But seeing that they are going to include it as an opt-in, I'm happy. I'm probably going to opt-in to use my google account, and on the day I am allowed to do that, is the day I ditch chrome completely. Even before, Edge integrated most of the functions I'll ever need that can be found in chrome's extension store, like the ability to read websites more easily, but now that new edge allows extensions, I don't have a single reason to go back to chrome (except maybe for nostalgia reasons)
- Oh, bummer, alright, thank you for the information!
- You're welcome!
