Microsoft is getting ready to replace Internet Explorer with Edge in Windows 10, so its current browser is slowly losing ground, at least that’s what statistics provided by some market researchers reveal.

Figures generated by StatCounter for the month of May 2015 put Google Chrome on the first place with a share of 52.3 percent, which means that more than 1 in 2 PCs in the world are running Google’s browser.

That’s particularly impressive because Google Chrome doesn’t come pre-installed on any computer, as compared to Internet Explorer, which is the default browser in Windows.

While Google Chrome is leading the charts with such an impressive market share, Internet Explorer is coming in second with 19.92 percent, followed by Mozilla Firefox with 17.87 percent.

Edge will be offered alongside Internet Explorer at first

Microsoft Edge will come with a completely new engine, a redesigned interface and features that would make collaboration more effective when browsing the web, so Internet Explorer doesn’t have a place in this modern world where Windows 10 is the key to everything in Microsoft’s strategy.

At first, Microsoft Edge will be offered alongside Internet Explorer in order to address any compatibility issues that might arise because of the new browsing engine, but the company doesn’t rule out the possibility of completely removing IE at some point in the future.

Edge will be set as the default browser in Windows 10, and Internet Explorer will only be available in the Start menu, so its icon won’t be pinned to the taskbar in the new operating system.

What’s more, Edge will be offered as a universal app, so it’ll become the default browser on all devices powered by Windows 10, including not only PCs but also smartphones and tablets. The browser is already up for testing in the existing builds of Windows 10, but it’s still called Project Spartan, which is the internal codename for the browser.