Microsoft Edge now also available for older versions of Windows. Here’s what and how to install

The new Microsoft web browser, Edge based on Chromium, is finally available also for older operating systems.

Let’s talk about the possibility to download Edge now also for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. In this case, after its official release for Windows 10 but also for Mac, the Redmond company decides to allow users with older operating systems to have the opportunity to download it and use it also on their PC.

Microsoft Edge: How to download

At the moment, its release actually only concerns the build of the Canary development channel, and this means that users will be able to download it and then have daily updates afterwards, this being the most ” developer ” version.

The software giant clearly underlines how the experience of using the new Edge for these older platforms is substantially the same as that seen with Edge for Windows 10, and this is a signal that shows how Microsoft actually wants to bring a homogeneous system to all.

We remember how the base of the web browser is Chromium, and this does nothing but refer to what we saw with Chrome. In this case, the main innovations of Edge partly concern the graphics with which each user can choose based on the type of experience he wants to aspire to with the opening of the new tabs. New organization for browser settings that are arranged clearly and explicitly with the various options for the user.

Synchronization of favorites from other web browsers is also possible as well as the possibility of installing extensions. These can also be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store and enabled on the new Microsoft Edge.

All this clearly does not seem to make it too different then from Chrome in the use, but it turns out the first version still not public but for the Insiders and the road for the development is still long.