Microsoft tests keyboard and mouse support in Edge browser for Xbox

Microsoft has begun testing full keyboard and mouse support in its Edge browser for Xbox consoles. This support is available in the latest Skip-Ahead alpha version for Xbox Insiders members.

Microsoft seems to have recently started testing this feature in the Xbox version of Edge, also writes German website WinFuture. It is not yet clear when this feature will be available to all Xbox users. Microsoft began testing the Chromium version of Edge for Xbox One and Series X and S consoles for Skip-Ahead members back in March. At the start of that test, support for keyboards and mice was still lacking.

The Verge editor Tom Warren published a video of the feature this week on Twitter, in which he shows, among other things, that the web version of Microsoft Word works with a keyboard on an Xbox console. warren also reports that the browser version of Google Stadia with keyboard and mouse works in the Edge browser for Xbox consoles. For now, mice only work in the Edge browser, and not in other parts of the Xbox operating system. Keyboards can already be used in Xbox menus outside of the Edge browser.

The Chromium version of Microsoft Edge on Xbox. Image by Tom Warren through Twitter