New Microsoft Edge with Chromium (Edgium) is getting ready for business

With the new Microsoft Edge getting a good feedback from users and a very fast paced development, Microsoft announced today a new very important step.

Because enterprise/business means a lot to Microsoft, they’re trying to get back on track and regain some market share that they loose to Chrome on the enterprise environment. So it’s really nice to see that since today a set of new features are getting available:

• Internet Explorer Mode
• This is something similar to IE Enterprise Mode, but all the magic happens inside the same browser. So, instead of the user gets redirected from Edge to IE, now it opens in single browser with IE compatibility
• Offline deployment package
• This is fundamental for enterprise environment so, MSI and PKG are now available for download
• Group Policies for Windows and MAC
• Again, something fundamental for enterprises to control features and behavior. A note here, although not just yet but, MDM and Intune support is on the roadmap

So, to take a look at a full list of features and downloads follow this link:
Microsoft Edge - Enterprise

Microsoft Edge based on Chromium (Edgium) GPOs early preview

Later last week Microsoft’s Sean Lyndersay made a post at Microsoft Tech Community where it was announced the first look of new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium group policies.

Without a lot of information for now, we were told that there will be correspondent one’s for Intune also.

He also stressed that this is obviously a work in progress and there’s still much work to do.

Take a look and download the preview GPOs here:

Microsoft Tech Community - Early preview of Microsoft Edge group policies

Microsoft Edge’s IE Mode will give a better experience over the current Enterprise Mode

For me, one of the biggest announcements at Microsoft Build 2019 it’s Microsoft Edge’s IE Mode.
Looks like Microsoft is really committed with the new “Edgium” browser and trying to allow enterprises to stop installing 2 browsers (usually Edge/Internet Explorer and Google Chrome).

With the new Microsoft Edge, based in chromium, plus the new IE Mode Microsoft tries to eliminate the need for Google Chrome and also gives users a better experience when accessing internal websites that only work with Internet Explorer.
Instead of automatically opening an IE browser, the IE Mode allows a new instance of IE directly in a new Edge tab. This gives the users a very very nice and integrated experience.

Find everything announce for Microsoft Edge here:
Microsoft Edge – All the news from Build 2019