This will give you another 90 days of free usage of Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge browser.Īccording to Microsoft, the company is focusing on Edge for Windows 10 and will only release a standalone version of the browser if everything goes smoothly. You can keep an extra copy of the Virtual Machine image and run it when one trial has expired. You should always keep your data backed up from the Virtual Machine. Please note that if you have data saved in the virtual machine, you will lose data after Windows expires. The period can be extended to 180 days which is about 6 months. The VM has a Windows 10 Enterprise edition with 90 days trial period. You can run virtual machine image for free which Windows 10 will come pre-configured for you. Microsoft has released Virtual Machine images for Hyper-V, VMWare, and Virtualbox which come with pre-installed Windows 10. This situation is really frustrating, especially for the developers.īut there is a way to overcome this situation and install Edge browser on Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 without upgrading to Windows 10. This leads us to an irony that Internet Explorer is still available for Windows 10 while Edge is not available for older Operating Systems like Windows8/8.1 or Windows 7. You can now download and install Microsoft Edge on Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 directly.

Update: Microsoft has released a Chromium version of Microsoft Edge and the Legacy Edge has been discontinued. Internet Explorer has been replaced with Edge. The new Edge is more secure and faster than Internet Explorer. In the previous Operating Systems, Internet Explorer was the Internet browser from Microsoft. With the release of Windows 10, Microsoft has released a new default browser called Microsoft Edge.

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