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2. chose the Virtual machine (Microsoft Edg )

3.Select platform you like, then download .

Microsoft Edg | dev : Test Microsoft Edge and versions of IE6 through IE11 using free virtual machines you download and manage locally.

But the good news is, windows 10 is a free upgrade for all windows 7 & 8.x users. Just goto windows update & reserve you copy. Its very easy (just one click).

You can use alternate browsers like firefox & chrome which performs equally well when compared to Edge. I'm not very excited abt Edge actually, cos when i compare it with firefox or chrome, I don't see much of a difference.

With the release of Windows 10, Microsoft has released a new default browser called Microsoft Edge. In the previous Operating Systems, Internet Explorer was the Internet browser from Microsoft. Internet Explorer has been replaced with Edge. The new Edge is more secure and faster than Internet Explorer.

This leads us to an irony that Internet Explorer is still available for Windows 10 while Edge is not available for older Operating Systems like Windows8/8.1 or Windows 7. It is specific to Windows 10. This situation is really frustrating especially for the developers.

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 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.

You can download all the Microsoft Virtual Machines here . For downloading Microsoft Edge VM, you will need to select “Microsoft Edge on Win10” Virtual machine select box. Select the platform of your choice. The options include Hyper-V, Virtualbox and VMWare. You can run these virtual machines on Windows, Mac or Linux.

No. We cannot download and run Edge Browser on Windows 8.1 directly. Because, Microsoft intentionally designed this Edge Browser for Windows 10 itself.

But, there is quote saying that “Nothing is impossible for Humans”. I believe in this most of times. So, let us apply this here too.

We cannot run Edge Browser on Windows 8.1 directly, but there is a way actually, which is a indirect path.

We can run/use Edge Browser in Virtual Machines, which are officially given by Microsoft. Here is the link to it — Free Virtual Machines from IE8 to MS Edge .

And then follow the steps below.

• Choose Edge with stable or preview versions of Windows 10.


• And then choose the Virtual Machine Type you wish to use in your PC/Laptop.

• Download that file.

• And just run it. Now, you can use/run Edge Browser in your Windows 8/8.1 indirectly using a Virtual Machine.


• That’s how you can use/run/test/download Edge Browser in Windows 8/8.1

That’s it. Don’t offend me for being myself.

Definitely you can download Microsoft Edge from this “virtual machine” soft from microsoft web page Visual Studio or else you can download from Getting the most out of Microsoft Edge .

No microsoft edge browser cannot run in windows 8.1 or 8 It is completely integrated to windows 10. But we can download it by installing virtual box to our windows the link bellow can help you to install the virtual box and also selecting the edge browser for your running windows.