Microsoft Edge 100 it’s a new version … of Microsoft’s web browser, yes. Who would have thought that time goes by and how the versions go by, but as you can imagine, such numbering has a trick and it’s nothing more than staying tied to what Chromium refers to, the platform on which it was founded several years ago. has replaced its own technology with technology developed by Google.

So maybe I should say that Microsoft Edge 100 follows Chromium in everything, but because Chromium is a project led and developed by Google, now in collaboration with many other parties like Microsoft, and Chrome is basically a copy of Chromia with several additives, headline doing his job.

If the launch of Chrome 100 was announced a few days ago, now it’s Microsoft Edge’s turn, even though it’s not the first Chromia secondary derivative to be uploaded to that version. Brave has done this before, perhaps the most prominent of all – Chromium derivatives – because it is the only open source.

In any case, the introduction of the Microsoft Edge 100 is more striking, because unlike the Brave or others that are going to come out, see Vivaldi, it maintains the same numbering of the Chromium and Chrome versions. And also for another thing: it is, after Chrome the most popular web browser for PC. Has it already been? No, according to the last big meter we have left.

According to StatCounter, Microsoft Edge would surpass Safari by only a few tenths in recent days and become the second most popular web browser on the PC. It is true that Safari starts at a disadvantage by limiting its availability, while Microsoft Edge is available for Windows, Linux and Mac, but that does not change the definition of PC, although some insist that Windows will be considered synonymous with the term a macOS. as something separate.

In this case, the Microsoft Edge 100 boasts a three-digit increase in market share, which is more than justified by the capabilities of the browser: Microsoft Edge is currently one of the most exciting alternatives due to the work the company has put into doing so.

But let’s talk more specifically about the Microsoft Edge 100. Any remarkable news? A little thing to tell the truth. Corrective fixes and optimizations for each update and five changes to highlight according to the release notes:

• Warning that boosting the user agent to three digits can cause – unexpected, but can – cause problems with some websites and also a way to reverse it (go to “edge: // flags” to enable “#force- major-version- option”) to-minor ”).
• Support for running applications related to Microsoft 365 protocols, such as URLs that point to text documents, spreadsheets, etc., only for organizations using Microsoft cloud storage services.
• Hardware security stack enhancements, Windows 8 and higher only.
• View PDF documents in the browser’s built-in viewer from local Outlook files or attachments, or the same thing, Microsoft Edge is designed as the default Windows PDF viewer in terms of the default system viewer and no other application. is associated with a file type.
• PDFSecureMode policy to verify digital signatures for PDF files directly from the browser and without the need for plug-ins.

Important changes that Microsoft Edge 100 brings with regard to PDF file management, but little else. After all, he doesn’t need it. More news will come in future versions. Meanwhile, the Microsoft Edge 100 is what it is until next month.