Microsoft company coverage of its Chromium-based Edge browser to Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users. The developers have released preliminary builds of Canary for these OSes. Allegedly, the new products received almost the same functionality as the version for Windows 10, including compatibility mode with Internet Explorer. The latter should be of interest to business users who need to work with web pages laid out according to old standards.
Assemblies on the Dev channel are expected to be released for older versions of Windows in the near future. There are no exact dates yet. At the same time, we note that although the release of Microsoft Edge based on Chromium is still far away, the very fact of the appearance of assemblies for old OSes is encouraging.
Of course, many users will stick with the traditional Chrome or other Chromium-based browsers. However, the arrival of Edge with support for Internet Explorer will finally allow disparate browsers to be united into one product. This will allow you to no longer use outdated IE, but use a much faster and more modern solution.
The new build of Microsoft Edge Canary for the operating systems Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 is available on the official website. These are still early versions, so they will probably have a lot of errors. In other words, they are not recommended for daily use, and if necessary, we recommend creating backup copies of user profiles.
Source: 3dnews.ru