Microsoft has released a preview version of Edge on its Dev Channel that runs on Linux.
Microsoft on Tuesday released its first-ever browser for Linux, delivering a preview of Edge on its Dev Channel that runs on the open-source OS. Edge’s appearance made good on an earlier Microsoft promise that it would make it available this month. “With this release, Microsoft Edge is now available for all major desktop and mobile platforms,” Kyle Pflug, a principal program manager lead in the developer experiences group, said in a post to a company blog. Edge was already available for Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and macOS, as well as for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. Like other Dev Channel previews, Linux’s Edge will be updated on a weekly schedule. Microsoft, like Google’s Chrome — the better-known browser also built atop technology created by the open-source Chromium project — maintains several different “channels,” named Canary, Dev, Beta and Stable.
