Microsoft Edge He celebrates next July a decade since he arrived with Windows 10replacing a Internet Explorer. His early years have not been particularly good and has remained as a minority browser in front of Google Chrome in Windowslike everyone else, but it seems that their fate is changing and is becoming a competitor much more to consider. This indicates The market share that it has reached in Windows in the United States by closing 2024: 30%. Something that Microsoft has not seen to happen with a browser of yours since the time of the Internet Explorer.
The figure has given it Satya NadellaMicrosoft CEO, in the presentation of financial results corresponding to the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, which is the last quarter of 2024: ‘Edge exceeded 30% market share in the USindicating that the trend started in the second quarter of 2021.
According to statista data, in the middle of last year Windows had a market share in the United States 60%while macOSits main competitor, it was around 23%.
The manager said that the advertising income of the search engine Bing and of News They had increased a 20 and a 21%respectively, ‘above expectations’, and that’ growth continues to be driven by the expansion of rates (advertising) and the healthy growth of volume both in Edge as in bing‘.
Microsoft desert crossing with Edge
When Microsoft launched Edge in 2015, I wanted it to be very different not only to the Internet Explorer, but also Chrome. Used its own engine, Edgehtml, and was not compatible with the thousands of extensions that chromium -based browsers havewhose greatest representative is Chrome. He did not find the favor of consumers, who in most cases They only used it once to download Chrome or another browser that was not the one that comes as standard with Windowsafter a new installation.
Edge’s fate began to improve in 2020 after Microsoft did Edgehtml’s complete transition to Chromiumincreasing security and performance and, at the same time, adding support for Chrome extensionsimproving web compatibility and receiving more frequent updates with useful functions that differentiated it. The great change he has experienced in the last two years has brought him Artificial intelligence.
The 10,000 million dollar agreement between Microsoft and OpenAi He took the first of the search engine, Bing, and then to Edge. Today, Copilot is integrated with a wide variety of Microsoft products that, in the case of Edge, Give users to chatgpt technology from the browser itself and for free. Nadella also highlighted how Copilot, the app, ‘is achieving greater participation and retention thanks to its improved speed, its unique personality and its exclusive characteristics, such as Copilot Vision’.