Taking Inventory of Microsoft Edge Extensions - October 2017 Update

It is time once again to take a look at the latest extensions to become available to Windows 10 users on the Microsoft Edge browser.

Microsoft Edge itself is now just over two years old as it arrived as part of the initial release of Windows 10 in July 2015. One year later, with the release of the Anniversary Update for Windows 10 extensions were finally introduced for the year old browser.

Now here we are with Edge having recently marked its second birthday as part of Windows 10 and right on the verge of the fourth major feature update being released on 17 October 2017 - most of you already know it as the Fall Creators Update.

Over the last year I have steadily chronicled the Microsoft Edge Extensions in the Windows Store, err, I mean Microsoft Store, in Windows 10 so after an update from the Edge team late last month I figured it was time to update our extension tracking.

According to the Microsoft Edge Team in a blog post on the official Windows Blog on 29 September, there are more than 72 extensions in the Microsoft Store now and they provided some background on why the growth has been so anemic in this first year.

They continued by adding:

They are certainly saying the right things about their approach to allowing extensions into the Microsoft Store however, until this process opens up to general submissions and becomes part of the Store validation process then the numbers are going to continue growing very slowly.

Here is a visual to give you an idea of just how slow the growth has been over the last 15 months:

That breaks down to just 4.8 extensions added each month - just bareley more than one per week.

I have said it before and will say it again until this changes if the restricted nature of adding extensions to the Microsoft Store continues then users will choose to not use Edge because the functionality that a robust extensions ecosystem gives them on browsers like Chrome, FireFox, and even Internet Explorer makes them more productive.

Here are the seven latest extensions added to the Microsoft Store for Edge:

-- Password Boss

-- Grammarly for Microsoft Edge

-- Marker: Screen capture tool for professionals

-- F1000 Browser Extension

-- bitwarden - Free Password Manager

-- Enhancer for YouTube for Microsoft Edge

-- 1Password

Ultimately the extensions should begin flowing in at such a pace that it is not easy for myself and others to keep track of what is being added.

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