NetMarketShare - MS has lost the browser war to Google.

Back in March of 2016, Netmarketshare - an internet monitoring company showed that Google's Chrome browser and Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) both held an almost identical marketshare of around 39.1% each - with Firefox, Edge, Safari a very distant 3rd, 4th and 5th. 

 Fast forward to today and the market dominance that Microsoft once held in browser has effectively vanished.  As of the end of January 2017 - so just 10 months from that tie - Chrome now holds a nearly 58% market share while IE has dropped to just under 20%.  IE's replacement - Edge has barely moved - from 4.3% last March to 5.48% now.  

 To put this in perspective.  In March of 2016 Windows 7 - an IE based OS had a nearly 52% market share and Windows 10 - an Edge based OS was at 14%. 

 Today Windows 7 has dropped slightly to 47.2% and Windows 10 increased to 25.3%.  So those two OS's alone count for nearly 73% of the total desktop OS market.  So for the combination of IE + Edge to only be at just 25% states to me that 2 of of every 3 Windows desktops is running Chrome.  

 In my opinion MS blew it with Edge.  It was forced upon the Windows 10 community well before it was ready and MS to this day still includes IE in Windows 10 even though many don't know it.  And sure Edge has improved, but just like folks back in the 90's and early 2000's made the change from NetScape to IE and never looked back - the same is now happening to IE + Edge.   

 I use Chrome exclusively and never even look at Edge and only use IE when some legacy corporate app requires it.  But even now that requirement is slowly going away.  

 Bottom line is that MS has blown it's market leadership in the browser space and most likely will never get it back.  And with a larger and larger share of Web Servers and services being Linux/Apache based versus Windows IIS based, MS is loosing the Web war...    

 And now that they barely have a mobile presence (0.83% according to some sources) MS is loosing relevance.  If you don't use their basic tools - why use their OS at all ?


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