Microsoft Edge Beta Overview
Microsoft Edge Beta is a pre-release channel of Microsoft Edge, part of the Microsoft Edge Insider program. It previews upcoming Edge features and updates ahead of the stable release on a slower, more stable cadence than the Dev and Canary channels, which makes it suitable for IT teams and developers validating changes before a managed rollout. It shares the Chromium foundation with stable Edge, supports Chrome and Edge add-ons, and installs separately so it can run alongside the release build. Edge follows a channel model similar to Chrome — Stable, Beta, Dev, and Canary — and the Beta build can be managed with the same enterprise policies as stable Edge, so IT teams can pilot upcoming changes under their existing configuration. The full offline installer is useful for staging Beta on test systems. The official Microsoft Edge Beta download is linked on this page, straight from Microsoftedgeinsider.