*Not counting EdgeCore
It's apparently been in preview for most of this year. It went into general availability last week:
blog-en.topedia.com
Around that time it happened here, but I don't really know how. I've long been on Edge Beta, so I knew that there were always two Edges. The one that comes with Win11 (stable channel), and the Beta that I opted into years ago (this one was in an "Edge Beta" directory of its own). But that's gone now. There's just the main Edge, but it magically adopts whatever channel you're on:
"To reduce friction and bolster usage, users receive prerelease builds directly inside of their Stable Edge application. Admins can allow users to easily opt-out of the preview experience, using built-in rollback to switch between their prerelease and stable channels with ease."
-It didn't happen via the policy mentioned in the articles, since I don't have this specific branch: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate. It's also not a corp machine that takes GPO, so it would have been up to me. And the policy is only good for those on an AD domain anyway.
-If it happened via Win Insider Experimental (Dev), I don't think they've mentioned it.
-I do connect to a 365 tenant, and the article mentioned M365 Admin. That must be it! Except it's not even configured there:
My only guess is that MS is quietly migrating testers over to this, since I can't imagine that they'll maintain the old system indefinitely.
It's apparently been in preview for most of this year. It went into general availability last week:
Edge Enterprise Preview is now generally available | Topedia Blog
Microsoft is rolling out Edge Enterprise Preview to general availability, letting users in the Beta or Dev channel flight prerelease builds directly within the Stable application.
blog-en.topedia.com
Get started with Enterprise Preview in Microsoft Edge
Learn how to flight prerelease versions of Microsoft Edge to end users using Enterprise Preview.
learn.microsoft.com
Around that time it happened here, but I don't really know how. I've long been on Edge Beta, so I knew that there were always two Edges. The one that comes with Win11 (stable channel), and the Beta that I opted into years ago (this one was in an "Edge Beta" directory of its own). But that's gone now. There's just the main Edge, but it magically adopts whatever channel you're on:
"To reduce friction and bolster usage, users receive prerelease builds directly inside of their Stable Edge application. Admins can allow users to easily opt-out of the preview experience, using built-in rollback to switch between their prerelease and stable channels with ease."
-It didn't happen via the policy mentioned in the articles, since I don't have this specific branch: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate. It's also not a corp machine that takes GPO, so it would have been up to me. And the policy is only good for those on an AD domain anyway.
-If it happened via Win Insider Experimental (Dev), I don't think they've mentioned it.
-I do connect to a 365 tenant, and the article mentioned M365 Admin. That must be it! Except it's not even configured there:
My only guess is that MS is quietly migrating testers over to this, since I can't imagine that they'll maintain the old system indefinitely.
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