Microsoft takes flight with Edge and although still far from Chrome

Microsoft had a lot of work to do to make up for lost time spent with Internet Explorer and then Edge. The first for getting stuck in the past and the second for not getting the strategy right. The result is that Firefox and Chrome kept gaining ground

Then the new Chromium-based Edge arrived with the aim of gaining ground and regaining lost market share And it seems that according to the data that comes to light, from Microsoft they are managing to reverse the situation.According to Netmarketshare, Microsoft is gaining ground with Edge.

The escalation is being slow and thus in June 2019, Microsoft has managed to reach an all-time high of 6.03%. A rise that contrasts with the drop in Google Chrome, which went from 67.9% to 66.29% between May and June, or Firefox, which fell from 9.46% to 8.86%.

It is clear that much work remains to be done. Those figures still show a huge difference with Chrome, but the fact that the market trend is changing, always downwards, may be a symptom of the existence of an exit at the end of the tunnel for those of us Redmond

Windows 10 on the cusp

Edge is still a long way from standing up to Chrome, but the growth is confirmation of a trend that is consolidating throughout 2019. The new Chromium-based Edge may be part of the reason, butdoes not account for the bulk of this improvement.

And for now, his presence on the Canary and Dev channels is mostly testimonial and serves above all to show the potential of the new Edge. Edge based on Chromium is for now a browser that the general public is not aware of and therefore they have not yet tested the potential it offers and the improvements it provides compared to the old Edge.

Perhaps the consolidation of Windows 10 as the most widely used operating system, above even Windows 7, also contributes to this improvement . And it is that in the same study, Netmarketshare shows how Windows 10 continues to be the most used version of Windows, followed by Windows 7 and already a long way from Windows 8.1, which, being the least used version, is located at the same height than macOS

Source | Netmarketshare