

The browser will be selected automatically for the upgrade based on the value. Microsoft assigns an upgrade value to each installation of Edge. We will support Microsoft Edge on Mac as soon as it is ready. With Microsoft Edge release 83, Progressive Rollouts will be enabled for all Windows 7, Windows 8 & 8.1, and Windows 10 versions of Microsoft Edge. Microsoft uses the time to monitor the update process and gather feedback to react more quickly to issues that may arise.īy monitoring the health of our updates closely and rolling out the updates over the course of several days, we can limit the impact of issues that might occur with the new update. Progressive rollouts limit the availability of the update by rolling updates out gradually over a period of time.

Starting with Microsoft Edge 83, a browser that is been released in May 2020, Microsoft changed the distribution of updates from being made available to all systems to a progressive rollout system. Any new version of the browser that is found will be downloaded and installed automatically at this point. Edge displays the current version and will run an update check at the same time. All that needs to be done is to load edge://settings/help in the browser's address bar.
