Eventually, we checked the sync settings for the account and saw that they said 'setting up sync-you can start browsing while we get this set up.' A week later, the settings still say 'setting up sync.' We're not holding our breath. With the Office 365 account logged in, local storage of passwords worked perfectly, but sync just didn't happen. Still, it should have worked unlicensed Office 365 accounts are a commonly encountered and perfectly valid condition in the wild for exactly this reason. To be fair, the problem could be that this Office 365 account doesn't have a license associated with it-it's just used to administer the actual users of a small business's domain. The first credentials we used to test were Office 365 credentials from a small business, and while the login itself worked immediately, the actual synchronization was broken. It's not hard to imagine a lot of Chrome users simply not bothering to replace it when they see how familiar it is. It should seem immediately familiar to seasoned Chrome users-and it even allows installing extensions directly from Chrome's own Web store. Edge is now based on the open source Chromium browser, which is the underpinning of Google Chrome and several other, lesser-known browsers as well.

The new Edge isn't entirely-or even mostly, so far-a Microsoft effort, though. It wasn't necessarily a bad browser, but it never really took off-by the time Edge became a thing, most of the people who cared about their browsers were so sick and tired of Internet Explorer they'd long since moved on to either Firefox or Chrome and the people who didn't care much about their browsers frequently ended up finding the old Internet Explorer and setting it as their default when they discovered that 'the big blue E' on their taskbar didn't work with legacy IE-only websites and apps. The old Microsoft Edge was a completely in-house Microsoft design, proprietary from the ground up.

Cue the jokes now about 'the new browser everyone uses to download Chrome'-but we're not sure that so many people will actually bother downloading Chrome anymore. Further Reading Goodbye Microsoft Edge, welcome Microsoft (Chromium) EdgeBefore much longer, every new Windows PC is going to have a new default browser: it will still be named Microsoft Edge, but it's a completely different browser than the old version.

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