14 DAY TRIAL // The transition to the Chromium engine allowed Microsoft to turn Microsoft Edge into a cross-platform offering, so in addition to Windows 10, the browser is now also available on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, macOS, and Linux.
Naturally, Microsoft wants to be offered to as many users as possible, and the recent release of Apple Silicon was an indication that the Redmond-based software giant was already exploring bringing its browser to devices powered by the M1 chip.
And this is exactly the case, as Microsoft has recently confirmed it’s indeed working on Microsoft Edge browser for Apple Silicon, though for the time being, no specifics are available.
“M1 support is in the works, stay tuned,” the software giant said on Twitter via its Microsoft Edge Dev account.
Google Chrome already announced for Apple Silicon
Microsoft’s announcement pretty much makes sense, especially because Google Chrome, which also uses the Chromium engine, has already debuted on Apple Silicon
Of course, there won’t be any feature gap between the existing version of Microsoft Edge and the one optimized for Apple’s M1 chip, so the experience overall will be exactly the same.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is also working on the stable version of Microsoft Edge for Linux devices. Preview builds have already been announced, and while the software giant hasn’t provided an ETA as to when the stable build could go live, this is expected to happen in the first months of the next year.
So right now, Microsoft Edge is truly becoming a cross-platform browser, with dedicated versions for nearly every single desktop and mobile platform.
At this point, the following versions of Edge are confirmed:
- Edge for Windows 7
- Edge for Windows 8
- Edge for Windows 8.1
- Edge for Windows 10
- Edge for macOS
- Edge for Linux
- Edge for Apple Silicon
- Edge for Android
- Edge for iOS