14 DAY TRIAL // The future Google Chrome updates will bring quite a lot of features to users regardless of their platforms, but on Windows 10, the browser is set to evolve quite significantly.
For example, one of the features coming to Chrome for Windows 10 is support for text suggestions for hardware keyboards when typing in the browser.
Windows 10 added this feature to provide users with text suggestions as they type on either the touch or the hardware keyboard, and the predictions are generated by the same engine that powers SwiftKey on Android and iOS.
Text suggestions were already available in Firefox and other browsers, but Google is only now working on adding support for this feature whenever a hardware keyboard is being used. This will make searching and typing much easier in Google Chrome, especially because the suggestions that Windows 10 provides are typically very accurate.
Additionally, Google is also working on adding Windows Mixed Reality support to Chrome, and the feature is already available in the Canary build of the browser. There’s no ETA for now as to when it should roll out to all users, but I’m guessing this shouldn’t take too long since the testing has already started.
Microsoft embracing Chromium
The timing of Google accelerating work on Windows 10 features for Chrome is surprising, to say the least. In late 2018, Microsoft announced that it’s switching to Chromium as the browsing engine powering its very own Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft says this approach would allow the company to contribute to Chromium in a way that would benefit the entire industry. Chromium is also the engine that is used by Google Chrome.
A preview version of the new Microsoft Edge browser is projected to go live in coming months, while the stable build is likely to be released with a future Windows 10 OS update, certainly not the upcoming April 2019 Update.
Via TechDows