Microsoft's Edge and IE browsers are being abandoned by users

to Google's benefit

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/3039933/browsers/microsoft-could-lose-out-as-the-top-browser-vendor-as-early-as-may.html [pcworld.com]

Microsoft's Edge and IE browsers are being abandoned by users, to Google's benefit

By forcing customers to upgrade to a newer version of IE—or alternately, turn to Windows 10 and its default Edge—Microsoft forced users to change browsers. That had a disastrous impact on IE’s user share as people used the mandate to rethink their browser choice, and abandoned Microsoft’s browsers for rivals’, notably Chrome

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I'm not surprised by this. If users are happy, don't force them to change. Microsoft ought to realise that people don't like to be forced to do things, and because there is a choice, I don't blame them looking.

[bill]

Given that Edge doesn't work with plug-ins yet and a lot of people were probably using Chrome or FireFox as an alternate it's not hard to imagine why this sort of drop would take place. One has to wonder how much of this obsolescence for IE was planned and how much was because of the poor experience with Edge.

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I can speak for myself, in that I didn't get on particularly well with Edge, so I tended to just not use it in favour of something else.