developer called it quits on Internet Explorer (IE) for OS X. The new browser is Microsoft's first for the Mac line of personal computers since 2003, when the Redmond, Wash. In that same post, Microsoft pledged to have a Dev build of the browser ready for the Mac 'very soon.' As on Windows 10, Edge can be run in multiple builds simultaneously on macOS, allowing for, say, a Canary and Beta iteration to co-exist. We are tailoring the overall look and feel to match what macOS users expect from apps on this platform. 'Microsoft Edge for macOS will offer the same new browsing experience that we're previewing on Windows, with user experience optimizations to make it feel at home on a Mac,' wrote the Edge team in a post to a company blog. Microsoft asserted that Edge for the Mac would be more than a quick port of the Windows version. So far, Microsoft has issued Canary for macOS and Canary and Dev for Windows 10.

(Edge browsers for Android and iOS already existed.)

Microsoft did not pin a deadline to the 'full-Chromium' Edge's production release, but said the browser would, unlike its predecessor, be a cross-platform app that supports Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7, as well as macOS.

Chromium is the open-source project, dominated by Google, credited with developing the rendering and JavaScript engines that powered Chrome, then later, other browsers including Opera, Brave and Vivaldi.

The browser, though, was announced late last year, when Microsoft said it would abandon its own technologies in favor of remaking Edge as a Chromium-based application. Microsoft first previewed the reworked Edge for Windows 10 in mid-April.

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