When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes into you. Or is that just Windows Hello?
Microsoft could be preparing to ditch the EdgeHTML layout engine of its unloved Edge browser in Windows 10 in favour of Chromium, according to reports surfacing on the eve of the company’s developer event Connect();.
The reports point to a mystery project, codenamed Anaheim, which will replace Edge as the default web browser in Windows, perhaps as soon as the next release of Windows 10, dubbed 19H1, likely due in April 2019.
Edge itself made an appearance with Windows 10 three years ago and represented a concerted effort by Microsoft to ditch the legacy of Internet Explorer. It has hardly been a roaring success, and as of today accounts for 4 per cent of desktop market share, according to StatCounter. Google’s Chrome has the lion’s share, at 72.38 per cent. Even the browser that Edge was supposed kill off hovers at 5.38 per cent.
