We’re at the time of the month where the major browsers publish their new versions, and after the recent releases of Chromium 109 and Chrome 109, both focused on major changes of purely technical importance, comes Microsoft Edge 109which more or less follows the same line, with nuances.

Such nuances, with this version, Microsoft Edge says goodbye to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, versions whose official support ended this month. In the case of Windows 7, it has already done so, except for its business edition; and in Windows 8.1 it does now. Be that as it may, two versions of Microsoft’s operating system have ended their life cycle for remnants. From now on it’s Windows 10, Windows 11 or take a chance.

As part of Windows monthly maintenance, the last Patch Tuesday that Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will receive is part of Microsoft Edge 109, which, like other browsers such as Chrome itself, is leaving support for the two versions. Or in other words, upgrading to Windows 10 or Windows 11 is no longer optional, but necessary to maintain minimal security.

After all, Microsoft Edge 109 is a fairly simple version that relies on Chromium security patches and bug fixes and nothing else, again with one exception: the TextPredictionEnabled policy, which allows typing help to be enabled even if it isn’t yet. available for all browser versions depending on the platform. For now, it’s only for Windows and MacOS.

Specifically, TextPredictionEnabled is an addition to typing assistant in the browser which “provides grammar, spelling and style suggestions”, including, depending on the level used, text predictions. As you can see in the picture, the differences between one mode and the other are that Microsoft Editor “sends data to Microsoft for processing”.

So the new Microsoft Edge writing assistant will help you with more or less expertise depending on the data you offer it to work with. This is the fate of the Internet: the more convenience, the less privacy. Let the user choose what they want to sacrifice. what By default, basic help is preservedalthough it is possible to disable the feature completely by unchecking the appropriate option.

If you’re a Windows, Microsoft 365 user, and generally use Microsoft software on a daily basis, you shouldn’t have any privacy concerns with this option. It’s like drinking coffee with saccharin after filling up on pies.