Managed devices are not included in the rollout.Īs an end user, the WebView2 Runtime rollout will have minimal disk space impact on your device. “With the rollout, we plan to cover Consumer devices with Windows 10 April 2018 or later update for Home and Pro OS editions. Now Microsoft says that WebView2 Runtime is now a part of Windows 10, making it much more reliable.

However, Microsoft says that this method also pushed up development costs and admits WebView2 developers have asked about a different approach.

There are benefits to the approach as developers can use the runtime on devices that didn’t have it. Microsoft says over 400 million devices now have WebView 2 runtime through distributing applications. However, on Windows 10, Microsoft has been telling developers to distribute and install the service through their apps. Specifically, on Windows 11, Microsoft Edge WebView 2 Runtime is directly a part of the OS. Now Microsoft is integrating the tool more deeply with Windows 10 to have usage parity with Windows 11. Microsoft later brought the tool to Windows 11 in 2021. Back in November 2020, the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime was made generally available for developers on.

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