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Will I move to stable release of Microsoft Edge Chromium automatically in January 2020
Hi,
So, as I understand Microsoft will push the new chromium-based Edge browser thru the Windows Update process, replacing my regular Edge browser, on my Windows 10 PC. Would it also replace the Edge Beta build on my Win'8.1 notebook likewise ?
Ramesh
all of these experimental channels (Beta/Dev/Canary) will stay in tact. Microsoft needs them for testing and making new features for Edge.
just like Google has Chrome (stable/beta/dev/canary) channels.
So, will I have to download and install the stable builds for both Win'8.1 and Win'10 as and when these are released by MS for these platforms ? I wish the Windows Update took care of upgrading Beta channel s/w to Stable ones automatically 😞
- Only for Windows 8.1.
on Windows 10, Edge stable will automatically come to your computer, replacing Edge classic, if you are using Windows 10 RS4 (Redstone 4 version is from 2018) and later.
Windows update shouldn't touch beta/dev/canary channels, because it wouldn't make sense and cause problems.
there are lots of users, like me, who prefer to use Canary channel instead of stable channel, to have faster access to the new features etc.
Stable channel can come and replace Edge classic but I will still use Canary until stable has all the features I need.Ok. So MS will upgrade regular Edge with Edge-C on WIn'10 (being the most recent Win OS, I guess) while for older OSs like Win'8.1 one has to download and install stable builds manually. I didn't realize that there are folks who would want to retain the Beta/Dev/Canary builds parallelly even after the stable build is released. Guess, it's to try out new features (which may or may not find way into the stable build later).