The Takeaway: Microsoft's IE soon to lose its workplace browser crown
The shift represents a stunning turnaround for IE, which like the Windows OS, has long dominated in the corporate world. (Companies using Windows often set up systems and apps that required IE, making it difficult -- until now -- for rival browsers to supplant it.)
Even as Microsoft tries to fight back by including its more modern Edge browser in Windows 10, that won't help the developer in the short term because companies aren't likely to embrace the new OS quickly. Enterprise adoption of Windows 10 isn't expected to pick up until 2017. In the meantime, Chrome's surge will continue.
Gartner analyst Michael Silver said that many companies have been forced to rely on IE8 because of Microsoft's support dictates for browsers. Those restrictions, in effect, pushed companies to seek alternatives, leading them to Chrome.
Here's how the browser wars are expected to unfold over the next year or so:
Silver expects the multi-browser issue and update track confusion 10 to get "messy" for many companies, and said that even with Edge, Microsoft has a fight on its hands for browser supremacy.
With reports by Gregg Keizer from Computerworld.