Will Edge Give Way? If So, Will We Hear Screams of Terror?
October 28, 2025
There are so many play of word titles to make with Microsoft Edge, but we’d be here all day if we indulged ourselves about the browser’s current situation, as found on TechRadar:“Microsoft Is Literally Losing Its Edge, As Browser Reportedly Sheds A Quarter Of Its Users In Six Months – But I’m Not Surprised.” Users are jumping off the edge left and right and zooming over to Google Chrome. Statcounter has the numbers: 73.81% of PC users prefer Chrome and people are on the Edge with the aforementioned browser at 10.37%.
What does this mean?
“That represents a loss of 1.36% over this past month, and a very worrying drop since May 2025, when Edge had a 13.64% market share going by Statcounter’s estimation (and of course, it is just that – an estimation). Matters just seem to be going from bad to worse for Microsoft here.”
Apple users prefer Safari and other browsers like Firefox and the Dark Web’s Tor have their fans. What will Microsoft do in the event that PC users switch to Chrome indefinitely? Will it be another fiasco like Bing?
It sounds like Microsoft is on the edge of a big change. Desktop users can easily download an alternate browser, but mobile devices will probably come preprogrammed with Edge. Not a big deal right? Nope! Microsoft could prevent users from downloading another browser and block their rivals. That will never happen, right? Wrong! It’ll probably happen then there will be this big to do in court because it violates US law.
Whitney Grace, October 28, 2025
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