Microsoft may be working hard to make Edge better for Windows 10 users , but another browser is the one that has the upper hand right now, and that's its longtime rival Google Chrome .
Google Chrome is the most used browser on Windows, but based on statistics provided by the company itself, the popularity of this application reaches beyond PCs. Statistics provided by Google inform us that it has approximately two billion installations worldwide (not to be confused with installations and users, which as we know so far are around one billion).
1 in 2 PCs are running Chrome right now
This includes both PCs and phones, as Google Chrome has been particularly popular on smartphones lately, running on both Android and iOS (Windows phones are not included in these statistics, as the Chrome version is not available for Microsoft's platform).
Although Google does not provide figures on the number of Chrome users it has, third-party analysts say the market share it has is more than 50 percent. NetMarketShare, for example, claims that Google Chrome has a 54 percent market share, while the new Microsoft Edge browser is only 5 percent behind. Google Chrome has no rival on the desktop at the moment, and not even Firefox can keep up - Internet Explorer is declining on a monthly basis, with Microsoft not adding new features to it and giving support to Edge.
Obviously, Google has laid the foundation for the continued development of Chrome on all supported platforms, so it is very difficult for any other company, even Microsoft, to dethrone it in the browser battle.
