Microsoft officially ended March 9Support for Microsoft Edge Legacy, representatives will no longer provide security updates for the product in the future. At the same time, Microsoft has also started popping a reminder on Microsoft Edge Legacy, asking users to download a new version of Microsoft Edge. Chromium Project. In addition, even though users insist on updates, Microsoft will also force Microsoft to replace Microsoft Edge Legacy through a cumulative security update of Windows 10 on Tuesday, April 13 of this year.
Microsoft Edge originally used the EdgeHTML browser engine built by Microsoft. However, Microsoft decided to adopt the Chromium project developed by Google in December 2018. Now Microsoft Edge is based on Chromium, and the one using EdgeHTML is called Microsoft Edge Legacy.
The end of support for Microsoft Edge Legacy means that Microsoft’s patch Tuesday (3/9) will be the last security update opportunity for Microsoft Edge Legacy, and the CVE-2021-26411 vulnerability that Microsoft will patch this week at the same time. The inclusion of IE 11 and Microsoft Edge Legacy, and exploited by hackers, users who continue to use IE 11 and Microsoft Edge Legacy, must remember to fix it.
From now on, Microsoft will add a notification message to the Microsoft Edge Legacy window to remind users that this version can no longer receive security updates, and may call users to download a new version of Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft Edge Legacy users can choose to ignore the message repeatedly, or turn it off using the “suppress the display of edge depression notifications” option added to Group Policy. However, the message is only a temporary solution, because Microsoft. Directly remove Microsoft Edge Legacy through Patch Tuesday on April 13 and replace it with the Chromium version of Microsoft Edge.
Assuming that the user has already installed a new version of Microsoft Edge, Microsoft will not reinstall Microsoft Edge when the patch is deployed on Tuesday, April 13, but the Microsoft Edge Legacy is removed from the system. Will give.
Until now, the Chromium version of Microsoft Edge has been well received by the outside world. Users should not struggle too much. Microsoft has not announced how many users still reside in Microsoft Edge Legacy. Also, because there are many other programs that still rely on EdgeHTML, Microsoft will continue to support the engine.
