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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.
Edge doesn't need the ability to have people sign in with a Google account. Those people are just being lazy and don't want to go through the effort of making a Microsoft account. There are many Windows users and many people that use Xboxes, all of them require a Microsoft account so enough people have a Microsoft account. I don't mind having to have three accounts to keep track of (Google for my android phone, Microsoft for my computer and Xbox, and Yahoo for my Fitbit account), it may be a challenge but not enough people actually face big challenges anymore. There are worse things that you can have to deal with than creating a new account for a service. Google services shouldn't have to be put back into Edge and forced upon all the Edge users out there because of a minority.
Mason425 it's not a laziness thing. It's a security thing.
All browsers/apps should support being able to sign in with whatever major authentication service they want and do things in an OAuth way.
Major Auth providers to me would be: Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter.
If I can sign in to Dropbox with a Google or Apple account, why can't I sign in to a web browser with my Google account and MS create an account w/o a password on the backend.
The more accounts I have to have, the more likely an account gets compromised.
If I have one highly secured account it significantly reduces the likelihood of an account being compromised because they have to compromise the account on the main provider (google)... which would be immensely difficult due to the number of security controls I add on top of u/p.