Instead, the company is refining Edge, to benefit multiple constituencies. One recent report previously detailed Microsoft's Chromium adoption plans and suggested that the company would release a browser to replace Edge. That language implies Edge will become available for Windows 7, for one thing. "Microsoft Edge will now be delivered and updated for all supported versions of Windows and on a more frequent cadence," Microsoft Windows corporate vice president Joe Belfiore wrote in a blog post on Thursday. Microsoft will also become a major contributor to the Chromium project as it looks to make Edge even more widely available. Now, after depending heavily on its own browsing engine technology, Microsoft will make Chromium, the open-source heart of Google's Chrome browser, a key part of Edge, essentially acknowledging that Google's technology has become dominant. It has added broader support for Linux in Windows and in the cloud, for example. In the past few years, under the leadership of Satya Nadella, Microsoft has come to embrace open-source technologies more openly. Apple's Safari had 15 percent, and Microsoft's old browser, Internet Explorer, had 3 percent share. Google's Chrome had around 62 percent share in November, while Edge had about 2 percent, according to StatCounter.
But it hasn't taken off, despite Microsoft's attempts to promote it in its own properties, like the Bing search engine.
Edge was one of the biggest new features of Windows 10 when it became available in mid-2015.
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