Users abandon sinking Microsoft browser ship at record clip

A month after Microsoft ceded the No. 1 browser spot to rival Google, Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge hemorrhaged user share at an astounding rate, data released today showed.

IE and Edge combined to account for 38.7% of the global user share -- a stand-in for the percentage of all desktop and notebook PCs that ran those browsers -- in May, according to U.S.-based analytics vendor Net Applications. May's number for IE was down 2.7 percentage points from April, the largest one-month decline since Computerworld began recording browser data in 2005.

In the last six months alone, IE -- a bucket into which Net Applications also throws in Windows 10's Edge -- has lost 11.4 percentage points, an unprecedented decline for any browser at any point in the last 11 years.

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