NEWS ANALYSIS: There is no bigger IT news than this week’s announcement of the Microsoft Edge Chromium browser for Apple. It is a game-changer, and here is why.
Microsoft this week announced it has ported its new Edge Chromium based browser to the MacOS, and I think this is huge. I’ve been using Microsoft browsers since they licensed its first Internet Explorer from Spyglass, and let’s just say that initial effort was raw—but so was the entire Internet.
The IT world was different back then, largely proprietary, and as such it was fighting the core concept of massive interoperability that the Web promised. Even though the browser was mostly free (something that Netscape seemed unable to figure out, to its own detriment), firms fought over unique aspects of them, creating significant compatibility problems for web developers.
Well, there is no bigger example of that world being dead than this week’s announcement of the Microsoft Edge Chromium browser for Apple. I think it is a game-changer, and here is why.
I’ve been on the Edge Chromium Browser for Windows for some time now, and it has become my default browser. It blends the compatibility benefits of Google Chrome with the legacy benefits of Edge, so that this is now, in my experience, the closest thing to a universal browser in the market.
On first load, it reminds me a bit of my first experience on Firefox, when I was amazed about how quickly it would launch web pages. It made old Edge feel ancient and even seemed to outperform the Chrome browser on my system.
