- Microsoft Edge slightly slipped to 13.29% according to the latest StatCounter figures for the browser market in April 2025
- Edge has been stuck around the 13% brand for over a year now
- To make progress, Microsoft must rethink its strategy and stop promoting too zealous Edge in Windows 11
Microsoft’s EDGE browser seems to be confronted with a distinctly difficult battle in browser wars, its market share that has clearly stopped in the past year.
Admittedly, this part as a percentage of the browser market has increased a little from top to bottom over time, leaving the global figures of the Statcounter analysis company. But the result is Edge does not seem to make real progress against the Google Chrome browser.
As Neowin noticed, with the April browser statistics, Edge is on 13.29%, which represents a slight loss of 0.08%on March 2025. If we rewind a year, it is actually a little, but the increase is marginal with a gain of 0.32%.
Essentially, Edge has been stuck around the 13% mark for more than a year now, and has not been able to free itself from the chains of this particular number.
At the beginning of 2024, he slipped more than 13%, then reached 13.8% in August 2024, seeming to make decent progress – except that he fell under 13% towards the end of last year.
Then, he increased like a Phoenix (AHEM) to reach 13.9% in February 2025, once again a solid increase, before going back down (like a Phoenix someone lit a fire hose) at 13.29% last month.
In short, whenever there is an increase that gives the impression that Edge could get more than 14%, the browser seems to lose users again. And given the distance to which Microsoft’s application is from Chrome – which is in the lead on 65% – it does not seem good for the global campaign to dethrone Google here.
In fact, looking at the entire browser market in recent history, nothing really does a lot – it is a very static global image. All the main browsers are almost flat and maintain a strict balance of power, with only minor fluctuations from month to month.
Chrome holds most of this power, as indicated, and Edge is a very distant second, in front of Safari and Firefox which are a good way behind (relatively speaking at low end). Opera is the other minor player who raises the back, but whatever the graph you look at, it is almost a straight line through the months for all these browsers, with very light Bobbles.
What is Microsoft? Well, I know it is a well -beaten drum, but I am convinced that part of the problem is the too zealous promotion of Edge in Windows 11 (and 10). This type of exercise – which have been numerous in recent history – does not only feel despair, and will probably deactivate people, rather than persuade them to give Edge a chance.
I know that the repeated prompts to make the edge my default browser have bored me several times, on the surface here and there, and I am sure that I am not alone (a quick rifle through certain online items on typical forums like Reddit underlines this).
The crying shame is that Edge is actually a good product. Indeed, it is considered the first choice of our overview of the best web browsers, so it deserves a significant rival for Chrome, even if it is not perfect. And Microsoft strives to discover some of these imperfections, such as bloating, slowly but surely.
What should Microsoft do to have a chance to cross the 15%barrier, then? Well, continue on the path of rationalization by all means, but be on Edge in Windows 11 (or elsewhere), and try to obtain a turnaround in the perception of the public of the browser that is too promoted. Because it just means suspecting this side needs To be promoted because it is not so great – which is not true.
Microsoft’s positioning himself to gain the favor and more good will from the IT public in this way could remain in good place, since the best dog browser is currently sailing on unstable waters, with Google currently under fire concerning the sale of chrome.
Or there is an idea: just buy Chrome, Microsoft. Of course, this distant perspective would be very little likely to fly with regulators because it is rather a “ out of the heat and in the stove solution ‘.
