A surprise announcement from Microsoft regarding "Windows 10"
Deleted in April ... a surprise announcement from Microsoft regarding "Windows 10"
From time to time, major technology companies come out about a recent matter of their own, the latest of which is what the American company "Microsoft" revealed, about its plan to get rid of the previous version of its Internet browser "Edge".
Details of the disposal of the previous version
Accordingly, in an official statement, Microsoft announced that it would automatically delete the old version of Edge on April 13th from all Windows 10 computers, according to the Russian news agency, Sputnik.
In return, it will install the new version based on "Chromium", as well as the "Microsoft Edge" Internet browser, along with the Windows 10 operating system, using the company's "Edge HTML" display engine.
In 2019, the company announced that it was rebuilding the browser from the ground up to take advantage of the "Chromium" program of the American company, Google.
And last June, Microsoft began introducing Chromium by updating Windows.
Two months later, Microsoft announced that it would not issue any additional security updates to Edge after March 9, 2021, while the company noted that for users who currently have a Chromium version on their computers, the April 13 update will remove The old version of Edge has them in a way that they won't even notice any change.
And at the beginning of this year, Microsoft announced, on its official website, that its electronic systems were facing the penetration of a group of pirates. In the same context, the company clarified that the investigations surrounding the matter revealed defects in a small number of internal accounts, and that one of these accounts was used. In accessing the source code in some storage locations