Microsoft officially ends support for Microsoft Edge Legacy
After several announcements, Microsoft has officially announced the end of support for the legacy version of the Microsoft Edge desktop app. The Microsoft Edge Legacy browser is now dead.
After Microsoft announced its migration to the Google-led open-source browser project, the Microsoft Edge Legacy browser, known as the classic version, is destined to withdraw from the stage of history.
The company recommends that users migrate to the Microsoft Edge based on the Chromium browser, and now Microsoft’s focus is to improve this browser.
The Microsoft Edge Legacy browser was originally codenamed Project Spartan, and the preview version was first released in 2015.
Despite using a brand new user interface, the browser essentially uses Microsoft’s own kernel, which is an improved version based on the IE Trident kernel.
The improved kernel is called the Microsoft EdgeHTML typesetting engine, but from the overall function/experience point of view, the browser has many fatal flaws.
In particular, the browser can only be updated with the major version of Windows 10, which caused many problems that Microsoft could not fix in time and caused a poor experience.
This is also the reason why the browser has rarely been used by users for many years. It was not until Microsoft announced the switch to Chromium that the market share of Microsoft browsers began to gradually increase.
In fact, the reason why Microsoft has repeatedly issued notices is to hope that users will migrate browsers as soon as possible, because, after the end of support, Microsoft will no longer provide any updates to the browser.
As a web browser, it is very common to have various security issues. Microsoft usually releases fixes in the monthly cumulative update to solve the security issues.
After the support is discontinued, Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, and it is no longer safe for business users to continue using this browser and should not continue to use it.
Attackers may discover vulnerabilities to launch more attacks after Microsoft ceases support. This is why Microsoft is strongly persuading everyone to migrate to a new browser.
