Xbox Edge browser could bring Google Stadia access with it
JC Torres - Mar 7, 2021, 9:09pm CST
The earliest gaming consoles were really just machines design for gaming and gaming alone. These days, however, consoles are veritable computers, especially now that they are pretty much running on the same hardware that makes up desktop computers. Unsurprisingly, some software you’d normally associate with PCs have also found their way to consoles, like the Chromium-based version of the Microsoft Edge web browser that’s now being testing on Xbox.
That the Xbox would have a web browser isn’t exactly new. After all, it does have the old version of Edge, now called Edge Legacy, that used Microsoft’s homegrown edgeHTML engine. While that was actually functional as a web browser, it wasn’t exactly compatible with numerous sites that used modern Web technologies or targets compatibility with Google Chrome, specifically.
Microsoft Edge Chromium is starting to roll out for Xbox consoles
Mar 7, 2021 09:12 EST with 18 comments
If you ve been waiting for Microsoft s new Edge browser to show up on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S consoles, well, you d probably be one of few. However, it s finally available, as spotted by Windows Central. A small group of Xbox Insiders are getting it now, and it will probably roll out to the general public in a matter of weeks.
The reason that this needs to be done in weeks instead of months is that Edge Legacy will no longer be supported after March 9. That means that if you haven t moved to the new Edge by April s Patch Tuesday, you ll be considered to be in an unsecure state.
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