As part of today's Microsoft Edge Web Summit, it was revealed that the Edge web browser, which was first launched as part of Windows 10 in late July 2015, is now being used on over 150 million active devices.
While Edge is available on all Windows 10 devices, including Windows 10 Mobile and the Xbox One, Microsoft said that they prefer to check the number of monthly active devices that are using Edge to check its progress, rather than simply checking the number of downloads of the browser.
Microsoft also said that, according to Net Applications, the internet traffic numbers for edge have doubled just between January and February 2016. It used data from another service, StatCounter, to show that Edge is being used more than Google's Chrome when comparing the first seven months after each browser launched.
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Microsoft Edge browser used on over 150 million active devices
I really want to use Edge, but keep switching to Opera because it's faster for me and has a nicer looking UI, though I loathe them for constantly switching the default search from Bing to Google. A problem I would not have on Edge
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Without the capabilities of keeping trackers, scripts I selected and ads in general away from my computer, edge is good for nothing (except downloading firefox, in case you've just set up a machine).
Good to know and another 149m are using it too.
I'd use it more but it still doesn't work properly with Office 365. Until it does it's a mixture of IE, Edge and a beta browser called Vivaldi for me.
That number will double once it gets a proper ad-blocker. Unfortunately it is garbage on mobile. I'd use it, but then I would end up with a broken phone. (I'd throw it against the wall) Loved it on PC when i was running adguard, unfortunately it was only a trial.
EDGE is the king of low power computer web browsing, using it on an Atom Baytrail tablet and on an Athlon x2 5000, on both Edge moves butter smooth, can`t say the same for Opera or Chrome, on my main computer I use Opera but here we talk about an i7.
Still no exensions.
Still no InPrivate jumplist option.
Still no download location.
Still storing favorites 39-folders deep in AppData instead of %PROFILESFOLDER%\Favorites like a normal person would use.
i keep hearing people complaining about tablet mode. and im with them. build this year didnt have anything regarding tablet improvement, except maybe for windows ink. but guess what guys? GIVE FEEDBACK! and from a touch device, because make sure ms has a good filtering for feedback since it has millions of insiders. give feedback about tablet usage, and how it still has miles to go, and maybe with redstone 2 we might still see some tweaks here and there. unfortunately i dont have a touch device so my feedback might not be taken seriously.
as for my personal please, i still dream the days when tablet mode did more to apps ui than making them full screen. i dream about days when tablet mode has the ability to make buttons bigger, enable certain swipes for touch input, and so on.
Still Use Google chrome for it its better and faster the first thing i do is unlink edge from taskbar
If all browsers have to take the same length of time to mature, Edge will never catch up. Don't compare to history, compare to today, Microsoft!
Really? Still a POS an I don't even have a good alternative on mobile
I pretty much abandoned edge for Torch. I'll be glad to try it again once they refine it, a lot more. As it is today, its way too slow. Half the time when a page is opening slow I can open internet explorer or torch and go the page I want before edge finally opens it.
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I'm starting to use edge some what more but if they'd start putting more work into the browser including the tiniest thing like moving book marks bugs customization and bring extensions already I could try using it as my main or only but it still needs more works and at better pacing from Microsoft I understand a mobile os but for a browser it needs to be sped up period!
Edge is basically the same as IE for me, it's the Chrome downloading tool. Haven't used it for anything else, nor will I. It's underpowered and pretty bare of any features that make a browser a browser.
It's god awful slow and doesn't let you start scrolling until 5-10sec
say that enough times and maybe you'll start believing it.
edge is currently the fastest mainstream browser, especially in launching, there's no denying that. It's still underpowered, like the guy you replied to said, but that takes nothing away from its speed.
It's fast because it has nothing else to load.
Chrome slows down because of extensions. Edge will slow down as well, once extensions (if) are enabled.
And what do you mean "in launching"? I have seven extensions running in Chrome (and a few more that are disabled until I need them), and it launches instantly. On SSD, I see no noticeable difference between Edge launching and opening the homepage, and Chrome launching and opening the same homepage.
You didn't happen to play a game called Artifact some years ago, did you? :)
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The 2D RTS game? I played it a little bit but not a lot.
Artifact? Remember Archer? That's me. :)
Nope.
Aight.
I always find edge results *random* to say the least, especially on Mobile. It never gives the results I'm after. Chrome just does it, with the fab ad block, which, admittedly, does slow it down ever so slightly. Looking forward to edge extensions
I still find Edge to be too buggy, but oddly enough it handles google Hangouts better than FF does for me.
How is that a valid metric now?
Because Windows 10 has been available for 7 months. All the other comparisons of one product to another uses the timeframe method to compare, I was reading an article on a Apple fan web site where they were comparing the adoption rate of iOS 9.3 on iPhones to the adoption of Win8 on desktop computers over the first week (it makes Apple supposedly looks good so it is permissible even though they compared to the desktop version, the last version of Windows, etc).
But we know how it works - yet another way for you to invent a way to attack Microsoft.
Firefox ftw!! Here's hoping Mozilla would make Firefox mobile for w10m
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Edge is trash. Web pages take forever to load... all of them too, not just some. I find myself sitting there waiting, looking at blank white screen.
150k users with Edge installed.... most likely not using it actively.
"[Edge] is now being used on over 150 million *active* devices."
Also, every benchmark test I've seen--including Google's own--have Edge loading pages faster than any other browser.
Are you blind or just ducking stupid?
He's both.
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There has to be another problem since Edge continue to process as fast or faster benchmarks than other browsers.
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Although Chrome's a hog,it has more extensions and features than Edge and the results are better too. Edge is improving though.
Poor them
Highly highly doubt the veracity of these numbers, specially in Europe.
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whatever they say is accurate, just probably twisted to make themselves look good. chances are, much of those 150 million users also use another browser alongside or moreso than edge. I personally only switched over to edge last month, after spending months alternating between firefox, chrome and opera after edge turned out to be too unstable for my tastes.
Probably. Or they count every time the browser - which you can't uninstall - is opened. Doesn't matter if people are actually using it. It's opened by accident or because some program replaced the default browser? It counts.
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replacing the default browser isn't as simple as that in W10 -- apps can't change the setting without the user's input, and the whole process involves the settings app, i.e. apps will simply load up settings when they try to change it.
they probably take one load in a week or month as being active, just like every other company's definition of active -- even facebook judges active users based on the same one-month period.
I tend to use Edge on my Surface Pro 4, since it's lighter and drains less battery than others, though i mostly use Chrome on Desktop(like now since i'm on my Gaminig PC) mostly because of AD block, but also it manage a bit better most of the site, while Edge still has a few problems here and there.
I hope exstentions or at least AD block will arrive on Edge as soon as possible, at that point i could really think about uninstalling Chrome
you're in luck. that anniversary update is for you, then
Just use a hosts file to block ads system wide. Works so much better than any ad block software. You will also find it is the ads causing any problems, block them and the websites work perfectly
I'm really not impressed by edge. Goes into (not responding) way too often. Ebay is border line useless with it. And my biggest issue is that it plain old sucks on a tablet. I'm guessing MS is never going to give us back Metro IE for our tablets at this point. I miss windows 8 on my hpstream7. When prompted i should have never agreed to completely delete it.
Yet I cant manage my bookmarks properly. Not even rename a bloody link
Big Brother is watching.
And I'm watching Big Brother live feeds on Edge. #TeamLove
Hi Julie!
This has nothing to do with Google.
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1984
I use both too but edge more because it's less bloat ware than chrome
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I own three of those devices haha. Edge is great on PC and pretty good on Mobile (Threshold) but the Redstone version on Mobile has been a bit slow.
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I use both chrome and edge.
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I use both IE11 and Edge. I wouldn't use Chrome even if someone paid me.
+1
Opera and edge for me
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Agree with that, Chrome is not very good.
I too.
I used to use chrome and edge. But I decided to try the new windows 10 version of opera and that replaced my chrome. It runs great, I like the interface and it has adblock plus.
really??
kudos to them.
Probably 100 million of those still think it's IE.
Probably. Neighbour had a problem with Edge. Came to me and told me IE wasn't working. I knew immediately it was Edge cause I'd had the same problem before.
Heres a laugh look in dev tools(f12) it says ie even on w7 is using edge for user agent MS continues to baffle me with these poor choices
Seriously? lol. Well, I doubt any windows 7 users left still use IE anyways.
Further evidence that NetMarketShare is mistakenly tracking Edge users as Chrome users.
I definitely trust StatCounter more than NetMarketShare.
That would be a mistake. Statcounter doesn't have this one issue, but they have many flaws in their methodology that gives Chrome far more credit than it should have, and they aren't interested in fixing things. Statcounter's numbers aren't exactly trustworthy.
So even if the stats for chrome are falsely increased, does that really get people to change browsers if they aren't having any issues with their current one? I mean most people just pick a browser and if it works they stick to it.
I didn't say "StatCounter is accurate". I said "I trust StatCounter more than NetMarketShare". Both are crap. One is crappier.
Stat counter is crappier.
By far.
Keep in mind the recent windows 10 updates increase those numbers quite a bit. There's no real choice other than Edge. And if you use other browsers they are still using Edge rendering.
lol WAT?
Huh? Are you referring to mobile?
Yes mobile. That will give them more edge users to show off in stats. But if mobile users could choose chrome, i'm sure they would haha.
Well, most of the web seems to think Edge is chrome whenever I visit sites...like WHY do they take me to the Google Play site..? lol =P