The Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser is still a work in progress, but the existing improvements that Microsoft makes to Canary and Dev builds give to us an early look at the feature lineup the applying is going to sport when striking the stable channel.

So that as noticed recently by Eric Lawrence on Twitter, Microsoft Edge will come with a really neat security feature that will protect Windows users against possible exploits.

Specifically, the browser issues an alert whenever it's launched with administrator privileges, which technically means that a successful attack could provide cybercriminals with full treatments for the machine.

"Administrator Mode Detected. Close Microsoft Edge and relaunch in non-administrator mode for best performance," the notification reads. It also features a button to close the browser.

"Warnings already there in preview builds"

The warning is currently available in both Canary and Developer builds of the new Edge browser, also it ought to be area of the beta and stable releases when they are finalized later this season.

The Chromium-powered Microsoft Edge is in preview stage on Windows 10, albeit it's easy to do the installation on older versions of Windows using the same installer. For instance, it has recently been found that deploying Advantage on Windows 7 is something that can be done with no modifications, and the browser seems to be running quite smoothly about this older Windows too.

When it comes to release date of Advantage on other platforms, nothing is certain at this point. Microsoft says a preview for older Windows and macOS is originating soon, but not one other specifics were shared.

There's a higher chance the company rolls it out the following month at the Build developer conference when further information around the new Edge will also be likely to be provided to developers.