INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Microsoft's browsers last month staved off decline for the first time since June, managing to hold on to their share of the market even as
Mozilla watched more users desert Firefox.According to U.S
analytics vendor Net Applications, Internet Explorer's and Edge's share rallied in November, increasing by one-tenth of a percentage point
to close the month at 13.9%
The boost to Microsoft's browser fortunes came entirely from the if-not-obsolete-then-certainly-creaky IE, which scratched back to 9.6%
Edge, the default for Windows 10 and the browser Microsoft has pinned hopes to, remained flat at 4.2%, the same ground it occupied in
October.[ Further reading: How to replace Edge as the default browser in Windows 10 — and why you should ]The rise of IE was ironic, since
Microsoft long ago demoted the browser, saying it was suitable only for the soon-to-be-retired Windows 7 and for Windows 10, as a legacy
Microsoft stopped improving or enhancing the browser, specifically IE11, in early 2016
Since then, the Redmond, Wash
company has only serviced the browser with security updates.
