Microsoft is bet a lot on your Internet browser, which positions itself as a strong alternative to Chrome or Firefox, which currently dominate the Internet. Those of Redmond have never stopped adding new features, so the users who already use it are more than loyal, while the new ones who arrive end up staying.
One of the most notable features is Copilot Shopping, which allows you to search and add discounts while browsing any shopping site like Amazon, E-bay and many other stores. Thanks to this, Americans confirm that in 2023 alone, the average household saved around $400.
A 2023 full of success for the Microsoft browser
Although of course there are more services, for example generative image AI, or questions sent to Bing AI to replace the search engine. This conversational chat We have also experienced some pretty crazy growth. To these services we must add what they call “Casual Games”, which are basically games that run from the browser.
But in addition, we also have the native benefits of Cloud Gaming and of course, the possibility of earning Microsoft Rewards points to exchange for games, services or hardware from the company. If you want to know how the company performed in 2023 in terms of Edge services, I’ll let you official statistics.
- Edge and Bing users have participated in more than 1.9 billion Copilot chats. This is equivalent to the total number of websites that existed on the Internet last year.
- Users have created more than 1.8 billion AI-generated images, 1,800 times more than the entire collections of the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum combined.
- Edge has stopped over 127 million phishing attacks. This equates to four phishing attacks stopped every second for an entire year.
- Edge users in the United States have experienced an average annual savings of $400, and buyers around the world have been offered a total of more than $4 billion in savings with Edge.
- Users have played almost 9,000 years of free casual games. That’s over 4.7 billion minutes played on Microsoft Edge since the feature launched. In fact, more people played the Edge surf game daily than the entire population of Huntington Beach, California, the original “Surf City.”
- Players have earned 148 million reward points on Edge, enough to pay for 1,000 years of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.
