While there is some validity to worrying about one company 'controlling the Web' and one of Google's biggest competitors now becoming a Google downstream, we don't think those concerns add up to much. Edge didn't have the breadth of extensions or the user-base enthusiasm of Chrome or Firefox-and it was no better than they are at running crusty old 'Internet Explorer Only' websites and Web apps. It's not so much that Edge was a bad browser, per se-it just didn't serve much of a purpose. We've seen one take waxing nostalgic for the old, purely Microsoft developed version of Edge, but we don't think many people will miss it much. There were just a few rough edges as far as installing extensions, logging into them, and the like. The new Edge project began with a complete and fully functional Web browser-Chromium-so it worked fine for browsing the Web. The beta was still pretty raw then-but 'raw' is a relative term. We covered the beta version of Chromium-based Edge in November. But will anybody use it?As of Wednesday, January 15, Microsoft will make the non-beta version of its new, Chromium-based version of the Edge browser to Windows 10 Home and Pro users. Further Reading Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux.

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