14 DAY TRIAL // The most recent canary builds of Google Chrome come with support for native Windows 10 notifications, a feature that the company recently confirmed and which is expected to be part of the next stable release.
While this feature is still in its early days on Windows 10, Google plans to continue improving it in the coming weeks and then make it available for everyone once a new stable build of the browser is ready to be shipped to users.
Google has never been a big supporter of Windows 10 or its features, but the increasing market share of the operating system gives the search giant basically no option than to at least integrate some functionality in its applications. Windows 10 has already exceeded 30 percent market share and is on course to overtake Windows 7 as the world’s leading desktop operating system by the end of the year.
Aggressive Microsoft Edge push
Google Chrome, on the other hand, is also the number one browser on the desktop with 60 percent share, despite Microsoft offering Microsoft Edge as the default app in Windows 10.
Edge, however, is seriously lagging in terms of adoption, with approximately 5 percent share despite what was often described as a very aggressive push from Microsoft. More recently, Microsoft said it’s considering making Microsoft Edge the default browser for links launched from the Mail app, no matter if Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is configured as default in Windows 10.
You can try out the new notification system in Google Chrome by downloading the most recent canary builds from Softpedia, though you should keep in mind that these versions are generally for testing only and come with bugs and performance issues that don’t make them appropriate for daily use.
As for when the next version of Google Chrome is supposed to land for all users, release 66 is scheduled for April 17.