![]() "Organizations are in full control of when the new Microsoft Edge will be deployed to their managed devices. It sounds from Microsoft's blog post today that the company is not going to automatically update business and education customers to the new Edge - at least not anytime soon. Microsoft also won't be automatically including the new Edge in commercially available Windows images until some point later this year. ![]() What about business and education customers? Microsoft is advising admins who want to pilot it inside their corporate environments to download its offline deployment package and related tools, which are available as of today. ![]() Microsoft then will extend this group to non-directory- joined Home and Pro users gradually, beginning with those running Windows on PCs that Microsoft has deemed most likely to have a "good experience," officials said. The first group that will get the new Edge will be a subset of Insider testers who are in the Release Preview Ring. Microsoft's next step in its Chredge migration - probably some time about six to eight weeks from now, I'm hearing - will be to start rolling out the new browser using Windows Update. And for users who have other non-Microsoft browsers set as their default, nothing will change those browsers will remain as users' defaults. Microsoft says that favorites, passwords, form-fill information, and basic settings will carry over to the new Microsoft Edge without users needing to do anything proactively. On Windows 8.X and 10, Microsoft will hide the old "legacy" Edge browser and make it look as if the new Edge is replacing it. Ed Bott: Meet the new Microsoft Edge: Your move, Google
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