Microsoft, on its Microsoft 365 roadmap web site, has launched new particulars in regards to the addition of Adobe’s PDF rendering engine. Microsoft first started rolling these out to shoppers in March 2023.

The entry was added yesterday, and the corporate says that the overall availability rollout of the identical will start in October 2025, which is, coincidentally, maybe, across the identical time that Home windows 10 and older Workplace variations (2015 and 2019) attain finish of assist. Microsoft writes:

Microsoft Edge: Constructed-in PDF reader powered by Adobe engine

Microsoft Edge will launch the brand new model of the built-in PDF reader that is powered by Adobe’s PDF rendering engine. The brand new PDF reader ensures that there is not any lack of performance and delivers an enhanced PDF expertise. This expertise contains richer rendering, improved efficiency, sturdy safety for PDF dealing with, and better accessibility.

Neowin additionally seen that the corporate has additionally up to date its weblog put up relating to the function in February 2025 with this new data, though it looks as if Microsoft was initially planning for a normal availability rollout for September 2025, which has now slipped by a month to October.

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To make sure a quality-driven deployment, the business rollout for embedding the Adobe Acrobat PDF engine into the Microsoft Edge built-in PDF reader has been moved to September 2025.

The legacy engine for the Microsoft Edge built-in PDF reader shall be eliminated in early 2026.

This is the earlier model of the weblog put up describing the rollout and the removing of Edge’s legacy built-in PDF answer. Microsoft had earlier stated that the latter would occur in early 2025:

By powering the Microsoft Edge built-in PDF reader with the Adobe Acrobat PDF engine, customers will obtain a novel PDF expertise that features greater constancy for extra correct colours and graphics, improved efficiency, sturdy safety for PDF dealing with, and better accessibility—together with higher textual content choice and read-aloud narration. These capabilities will proceed to be freed from price.

Client (and unmanaged) customers of Microsoft Edge will see this alteration instantly. This can roll out to organizations with managed units over time, to permit time to check the up to date expertise and transition customers. This rollout will observe a quality-driven-based method, so milestone dates might modified as we obtain suggestions on testing… In the end, the legacy engine within the Microsoft Edge PDF answer is scheduled to be eliminated in 2025 (date to be up to date ASAP). (Up to date: August 8, 2024)

And this is the up to date model:

… the legacy engine within the Microsoft Edge PDF answer is scheduled to be eliminated in early 2026. (Up to date: February 25, 2025)

You possibly can view the Microsoft 365 entry right here below 489231 and the Tech Neighborhood weblog put up right here.