Microsoft Edge has the highest market share ever

In an unexpected move, it seems that Microsoft Edge is gradually gaining ground and market share makes other 'big players' in the web browser market such as Firefox and especially Chrome unable to 'average'. before. Specifically, according to Netmarketshare statistics, the market share that Microsoft 's web browsing platform achieved in June 2019 has recently reached 6.03% of the market, this is the highest level that Microsoft Edge has achieved since its inception. official eyes.

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Microsoft Edge has seen strong growth since the beginning of 2019 until now

It seems that the growth that Microsoft Edge has achieved has "contributed" from Firefox and Chrome. The reason for this is because in the period from May to June, Mozilla's browser has a market share decreased from 9.46% to 8.86%, and the same case happens with the browser of Google with a decrease from 67.9% to 66.29%.

As can be seen in the chart, such a rise and fall is not unique, but a capital trend that has been going on since the beginning of the year.

The reason for Edge's strong growth is probably Microsoft's success in Windows 10 'universalization' for devices running Windows around the world. In fact, Windows 10 has recently surpassed Windows 7 to become the most commonly used PC operating system on the planet.

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In addition, the official launch of Microsoft Edge Chromium version of the last few months with a lot of noticeable improvements as well as comprehensive changes made users feel excited to return to this browser platform. This is probably a more plausible explanation because Edge's market share in 2018 is extremely modest and there are not many significant fluctuations.

Regarding the market share of desktop operating system, there is not too much change when Microsoft is still the boss in this "territory" with 2 familiar names Windows 10 and Windows 7. In particular, Windows 10 dominates the market. and has grown steadily since surpassing the man (Windows 7) in February 2019 with about 47% of the market share.Windows 7 ranked second with about 35% market share, but this number It is forecasted to continue to fall sharply in the near future as Microsoft further encourages users to upgrade to Windows 10.

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Market share of the global desktop operating system