Microsoft’s edge browser seems to be facing a clear uphill in the browser wars, where its market share has clearly stopped in the past year.
Granted that the percentage of the browser market has bubbled up and down slightly as time has passed, and goes by the analysis company Statcounters’ global figures. But the result is Edge doesn’t seem to do anything right against Google’s Chrome browser.
Like Neowin, with April’s browser statistics, Edge is 13.29%, which is a small loss of 0.08%in March 2025. If we rewind one year back, it is actually a bit up, but the increase is marginal with a gain of 0.32%.
In essence, Edge has been fixed about 13% mark for over a year now and has been unable to break free from the springs in that number.
At the beginning of 2024, it sneaked over 13% and then hit 13.8% in August 2024, which appears to make some decent progress – except it fell back below 13% towards the end of last year.
Then it rose like a Phoenix (Ahem) to reach 13.9% in February 2025, again a solid uptick before falling back (like a phoenix anyone lit a fire hose) to 13.29% last month.
In short, when there is an increase that makes it look like Kant could get over 14%, the browser seems to throw users again. And considering how far away the Microsoft app is from Chrome – which is far at the forefront of 65% – it doesn’t look good for the overall campaign to deter Google here.
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Looking at the whole browser market in recent history does nothing really much – it’s a very static overall picture. All the big browsers have pretty much flat and maintain a strict balance of power with only minor fluctuations from month to month.
Chrome has most of this power, as mentioned, and Edge is a very distant second in front of Safari and Firefox, which is a good path behind it (relatively by low-end). Opera is the second smaller player that brings the back end, but no matter what graph you are looking at, it’s pretty much a straight line throughout the months of all these browsers, with very light bobbles.
What does Microsoft get wrong? Well, I know it’s a well -beaten drum, but I’m convinced that part of the problem is the excessive promotion of Edge in Windows 11 (and 10). This kind of exercises – which have been many in recent history – only a smack of desperation and are likely to turn off people instead of persuading them to give Kant a chance.
I know that repeated requests to make Kant to my standard browser have annoyed me a lot of times, appear here and there, and I’m sure I’m not alone (a quick rifle through some online posts on typical fora like Reddit emphasizes this).
The crying shame is that Edge is actually a good product. In fact, it is rated as the top choice in our Roundup of the best web browsers, so it deserves to be a meaningful rival to Chrome, though not perfect. And Microsoft is working to iron some of these imperfections, as bloated, slowly but surely.
What should Microsoft do to have a chance to break through the 15% barrier then? Well, hold the path to streamline in every way, but just shut up the edge of Windows 11 (or other places) and try to get a reversal in the public perception that the browser is being overly promoted. Because it only leads to suspicion of that edge Need To be promoted because it is not so big – which is not true.
Microsoft, who is placing to gain, and more goodwill from the computer audience in this way could be in good condition, considering that the top dog browser is currently navigating in some unstable waters, with Google currently under fire in terms of selling Chrome.
Or there’s an idea: Just buy Chrome, Microsoft. Of course, it would be very unlikely to fly with regulators, as it is rather a ‘out of the fire and into the frying pan’ solution.
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