By Paul Thurrott
Publication Date: 2026-10-15 17:23:00
The Microsoft Edge team envisions a future in which security and other updates happen in the background without requiring restarts. This is important because AI has ramped up the discovery of security flaws and the speed at which they can be exploited.
“We’ve developed a working prototype that moves Microsoft Edge to a new, more secure version while your open work continues, with no restart prompt and hardly anything to notice,” Microsoft’s Rob Franco and Arunesh Chandra write. “Our goal is that you won’t have to click the update button at all; you would simply continue working with a safer browser. Importantly, your updates could be applied within minutes of availability.”
Microsoft is sharing the Edge prototype early to get feedback, but it’s not available in Chromium or the production versions of its web browser yet. But one piece of this puzzle is available now if you don’t mind opting-in to an experimental feature called Restart to update on…
