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Microsoft is pushing the Chromium-based version of Edge

Posted on September 15th, 2020 at 07:28 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

This really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody.

Lawrence Abrams at BleepingComputer talks about KB 4576754, the “Update for the new Microsoft Edge for Windows 10, version 1809, 1903, 1909, and 2004: August 31, 2020.” Abrams credits Venkat on Techdows. Venkat says that the patch appears as “2020-08 Microsoft Edge Update for Windows 10 version 2004 (KB4576754)” in the Update history list.

As @abbodi86 notes:

It’s a normal update, can be hidden or postponed with group policy or a metered connection. And it was announced two months ago:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/upgrading-to-the-new-microsoft-edge-through-windows-update/m-p/1499724

As I’ve said before, go ahead and install Chredge. Use Brave or Firefox (or Chrome)… and give Chredge a try when you have some time. It’s OK, but it won’t supplant any of the others for me anytime soon.

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