Almost three-quarters of desktop users prefer Google's offering, and it's unlikely to be challenged anytime soon. Netmarketshare, for example, has had Edge in the number two spot for over a year.īut it goes without saying that Chrome dominates everyone's charts. It's worth remembering that the various market research companies use different data gathering methods. There were also the shade-throwing popups it used whenever someone visited the Chrome download page while on Edge. However, Microsoft did roll out an optional update recently that made switching as simple as clicking a button. If users missed their single chance to commit to a new program, switching over to a different default browser in Windows 11 had been an arduous process. Microsoft has pushed hard, often in unethical ways, to get more people onto Edge. We already knew that Edge looked set to replace Safari as the number two desktop browser, given the trends we've witnessed over the last year or so-in January 2021, Safari had 10.38 percent of the market compared to Edge's 7.81, but twelve months later, that difference was just 0.30%. “Of course, we see some people using it basically for mustaches,” he adds.Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Browser Market Share “Even before there is a learning curve, there’s a ‘what is this for’ curve.” DeBruyne himself is curious to see how Windows 10 users might take the feature in unexpected directions. “It’s not something people expect to be able to do in a browser,” says DeBruyne.
Users will have to decide how they want to use them.
Hitting it snaps an image of the page and opens a toolkit of pens, highlighters, an eraser and text boxes, which appear in the menu bar. The “ink” feature, which appears as a notepad icon in the upper right hand corner, takes a little getting used to.
Compared to Google Chrome’s option to simply flop a new tab over the one you’re reading, it’s a huge improvement.īut perhaps the single most intriguing new feature in Microsoft Edge is the ability to snap a picture of a webpage and start editing it. Those are the classes of scenarios that we think are very interesting for Cortana to assist.”Īnd where Cortana can’t proactively suggest answers, users can highlight words and fetch search results, again, in an non-obstructive side menu. “You can just think of the most common activities on the web,” says group program manager Drew DeBruyne. While the functionality is limited only to some restaurants at the moment, the Microsoft Edge team says it’s racing to add more content.
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