With the release of Windows 10 Microsoft has discontinued Internet Explorer in favor for their new browser Microsoft Edge. But not everybody wants to or can upgrade to the latest version of Windows 10 right away. Still sometimes it is necessary to use Microsoft Edge for one task or the other. But how is it possible to run Microsoft Edge without upgrading to Windows 10? In this post I will show how it is possible to run Microsoft Edge on Windows 7 or 8 in 4 easy steps.
1. Download and Install BrowseEmAllYou will need to download the free trial of BrowseEmAll. After the download is finished install the application. Register your trialAfter the installation has completed successfully please start BrowseEmAll and enter your email address to start the free trial.3. Switch to Live TestingNow the main screen of the application is opened. Select Live Test at the top left to launch a new instance of Microsoft Edge.4. Launch Microsoft EdgeIn our final step you need to enter the Url and select the Microsoft Edge version you want to launch.After you clicked the Start Test button BrowseEmAll will automatically download all necessary files from Microsoft and start Microsoft Edge for you.SummaryAs you can see it is still possible to run Microsoft Edge versions on Windows 7 or 8. Of course BrowseEmAll also offers support for many other browsers including Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer so sometime.
11 Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. Chris Hoffman @chrisbhoffman Updated July 27, 2016, 1:47am EDT. Windows 10 includes Microsoft Edge, which replaces Internet Explorer as the default browser. Edge’s interface has been rewritten from scratch, and it sheds Internet Explorer’s old interface and all that clutter. How can the answer be improved?
But there is a way to overcome this situation and install Edge browser on Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 without upgrading to Windows 10. Microsoft has released Virtual Machine images for Hyper-V, VMWare, and Virtualbox which come with pre-installed Windows 10.You can run the virtual machine image for free which Windows 10 will come pre-configured for you. The VM has a Windows 10 Enterprise edition with 90 days trial period. The period can be extended to 180 days which is about 6 months.Please note that if you have data saved in the virtual machine, you will lose data after Windows expire. So you should always keep your data backed up from the Virtual Machine. You can keep an extra copy of the Virtual Machine image and run it when one trial has expired.
This will give you another 90 days of free usage of Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge browser. According to Microsoft, the company is focusing Edge for Windows 10 and will only release a standalone version of the browser if everything goes smoothly. But this can be a long while or never. But interested users can always try and test Microsoft Edge without compromising on Windows upgrade.
Go to the. Select MSEdge on Win10 (x64) Stable 1809 under Virtual Machine drop-down. Select the virtualization platform from platform drop-down. You can select from Virtualbox, Vagrant, VMWare, or Parallels for Mac.Must Read Articles:. How can you run a real life browser in a virtual machine? The speed is not the same!
A Firefox or Chrome on the real system will be faster than a virtual machine with Edge! The solution is not an option. Also, Windows XP can run a virtual Windows 10 machine, sow we can use Edge on Windows XP! Microsoft OS is a big failure!PS. Read this citation from a website (not my work):“If bill gates wouldn’t have locked the market down by burying the best ever designed operating system under tremendous amounts of copyrights and such then our systems would have been much safer and much faster and more stable then anyone could imagine. I’m talking about the one and only true OS that is capable of handling any kind of hardware. They never should have let microsoft be in charge of any OS since their one and only purpose is to exploit the world as their personal money machine.I’m talking about the good old Disk Operating System (DOS).
Don’t forget that Bill gates stole it at the time when the real developers were still working on it although Bill Gates never admitted it. The only proof we got is that even Microsoft was unable to upgrade DOS simply because they hadnt had the slightest idea on how to do that. All later versions of DOS were made by smart young students who, ofcourse, had to give their knowledge to microsoft or face the consequences (lawsuits)I myself see Bill Gates as a kind of digital Adolf Hitler because he drains the economy worldwide undoubtingly causing real deaths due to the nature of power in this era.It was said that Unix (the base for all linux/SCO-Xenix) was far better then DOS, but every system analyst who ever worked with them both (like me) will say with 100% certainty: UNIX has limitations which DOS never had and the other way around. The only reason why UNIX was preferrable was because DOS had the nasty RAM limitationUnix had it’s own problems as well and it took many years to make it possible for the average programmer to use UNIX in a functional matter. (unix was mostly used by big companies with their huge mainframe computersystems)DOS eventually became the standard for years and microsoft did their best to decode the original DOS created by students (who never worked for MS!)They succeeded to get rid of the RAM limitation (although not by changing the source but by adding own assembly language) but the orignal DOS was never decoded up to today. (remember that in those days it was common to make an executable (non-decoable) after te programmer finished his work in order to protect his own labour.The extension used at that time was.COM (which is still being used by windows.There was a reason for this, namely: when you start up your computer the BIOS will execute a series of tests before handing over control to an operating system.
After the test are completed then the BIOS would look for some files to be executed.