Xbox users are in luck. After several months in testing, Microsoft has announced the launch of Microsoft Edge on all Xbox that continue to receive updates, which even involves the Xbox One from 2013. The consoles had a previous version of the Edge browser, but with this new version they are finally (almost) at the height of the PC browser.
It is a browser that is updated with the Chromium base of the Edge of Windows, Mac and Linux, so It is compatible with all the websites that we can load on the desktop. Everything does not have to work exactly the same, but more due to limitations of the Xbox operating system than the browser itself.
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When we learned in March that Microsoft was testing Edge with Insiders, the feeling it gave us is that it was proof that Microsoft’s unfulfilled dream with its ‘One Windows’ made sense, because for It finally gave relatively PC-like capabilities to its more than capable consoles..
A very capable browser that still needs to be improved
The great thing about this browser on Xbox is that it allows, for example, an Xbox One from 2013 to access Google Stadia. Even when games stop coming out for it, if Stadia still exists (which is not clear) and Microsoft does not layer Edge when it detects that it runs on an Xbox, users of an old console will be able to continue playing many of the latest games with a few graphics even higher than those offered by the console that is running them.
Also, being able to use a keyboard and mouse made us think that, given how based many of the tasks of many jobs today are on web tools, Edge on the Xbox could be used for work. And although my partner Gabriela saw enormous potential in her, in practice it is still far.
We are talking about a browser that on the Xbox Series X it offers a very very good performance, comparable in web browsing to very recent PCs. It does not have optimization problems there, but bugs such as the virtual keyboard is shown despite having the on-screen keyboard, etc. In any case, gamers will benefit from much more flexibility on their console, which today becomes more than just that.