- Microsoft Edge fell slightly to 13.29% according to the latest Statcounter figures for the browse market in April 2025
- Edge has been stuck around the 13% brand for more than a year
- To move forward, Microsoft needs to rethink its strategy and stop promoting the edge on Windows 11
The Edge of Microsoft seems to be facing a clearly uphill battle in the Browser wars, and its market share has clearly stagnated during the past year.
Of course, this percentage of browser market has been balancing a little as time has passed, through the global figures of the Statcounter analysis firm. But the result is that Edge does not seem to progress true against Google Chrome browser.
As Neowin noticed, with the statistics of the April Navigator, Edge is at 13.29%, which is a slight loss of 0.08%in March 2025. If we go back a year, it actually increases a bit, but the increase is marginal with a gain of 0.32%.
Essentially, Edge has been stuck around the 13% brand for more than a year, and has not been able to free himself from the shackles of that particular number.
At the beginning of 2024, it was crawled for more than 13%, then reached 13.8% in August 2024, seeming to make a decent progress, except that it fell to less than 13% towards the end of last year.
Then it increased as a phoenix (ahem) to reach 13.9% in February 2025, again a solid increase, before falling again (like a phoenix that someone turned a fire hose) to 13.29% last month.
In summary, every time there is an increase that makes it look like Edge could exceed 14%, the browser seems to throw users again. And given how far the Chrome Microsoft application is, which is at the head of 65%, it is not seen well for the general campaign to dethrone Google here.
Actually, observing the entire browse market in recent history, nothing is really doing a lot: it is a very static general image. All the main browsers have been practically flat and maintain a strict balance of power, with only fluctuations lower from month to month.
Chrome contains most of that power, as noted, and Edge is a very distant second, ahead of Safari and Firefox, which is a good way behind him (relatively speaking in the lower range). Opera is the other minor player who appears in the back, but the graph that looks is practically a straight line during the months for all these browsers, with very slight bobbles.
What is wrong Microsoft? Well, I know it is a drum well, but I am convinced that part of the problem is the excessive promotion of Edge in Windows 11 (and 10). These types of exercises, which have been numerous in recent history, only hit despair, and will probably turn off people, instead of persuading them to give the advantage a chance.
I know that the repeated indications to make Edge my predetermined browser have bothered me many times, cutting here and there, and I am sure that I am not alone (a quick rifle through some online publications in typical forums such as Reddit underlines this).
The shame that cries is that Edge is actually a good product. In fact, it is qualified as the best choice in our summary of the best web browsers, so it deserves to be a significant rival for Chrome, even if it is not perfect. And Microsoft is working to iron some of those imperfections, such as swelling, slow but safe.
What should Microsoft do to have the opportunity to break the barrier of 15%, then? Well, continue on the path of rationalizing by all means, but simply shut up around Edge in Windows 11 (or elsewhere) and try to obtain a change in the public perception that the browser is promoted too much. Because that only leads to suspicion of that advantage needs Be promoted because it is not so good, which is not true.
Microsoft positioned itself to gain favor and more good will of the computer public in this way could be maintained in good position, since the best dog browser is currently sailing through some unstable waters, with Google currently under fire with respect to the sale of Chrome.
Or there is an idea: only Chrome Buy, Microsoft. Of course, that remote perspective would be very unlikely to fly with regulators, since it is rather a solution of ‘out of fire and in the pan’.
