The Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser is now available for download in Dev and Canary builds, and since it run on exactly the same engine as Google Chrome, it arrives with a number of features produced by Google itself.

But despite embracing Chromium, Microsoft doesn't want to let all Chrome services featuring run as part of its browser, so the company blocked a lot more than 50 of them within the browser.

A full list of features that Microsoft replaced or switched off will come in the slide included in the article, but worth highlighting is Google Play support, push notifications, the spellcheck (incidentally, Microsoft Edge doesn't currently offer spellchecking), Android app password hint, Google DNS, Google Cloud Storage, and several services related to Chrome OS.

"Cross-platform support"

Microsoft says its collaboration with Google worked neatly, so that as a part of its original plan to improve Chromium, it added at least 275 commits towards the project since joining it in December.

"We have a great deal to learn once we increase our use of and contributions to Chromium, but we have received great support from Chromium engineers in assisting us get involved with this project, and we're pleased to have landed some modest but meaningful contributions already. Our plan's to carry on working in Chromium rather than creating a parallel project, to prevent any chance of fragmenting the city," the Microsoft Edge team explained.

The brand new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge will support Windows 10 and former Windows versions like Windows 7, as well as macOS. A Linux version hasn't been confirmed at this time, but given that Chromium itself is a cross-platform project, this type of release isn't necessarily from the table.

For the time being, however, the preview form of Edge only runs on Windows 10, but Microsoft says the woking platform support could be further expanded within the coming months.