Every category where a model named Microsoft Edge for Business for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Enterprise browsers	Security operations	14%	3 of 80	3%	33	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Microsoft Edge for Business yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Microsoft Edge for Business across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	2	0	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	4	0	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	3	0	0	3
Mistral Small	1	1	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	0	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1	1	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	3	0	0	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	3	0	1	0	4

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct23 labels9

Paraphrase21 labels7

Comparative35 labels19not counted in share

Budget-constrained21 labels9

Scale-constrained9 labels1

Negative5 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative114 labels in all, every segment counted; 26 of the 47 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Chrome Enterprise and Edge for Business are strong choices if you want to keep the familiar Chromium experience and add management and DLP.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Enterprise browsers · comparative prompt · first choice

“Chrome Enterprise and Microsoft Edge for Business are cited as leading the competitive landscape in the enterprise browser market” Muse Glimmer 30B · Enterprise browsers · comparative prompt · first choice

“Microsoft Edge for Business is inbox with Windows and requires no separate browser license. It's the lowest operational cost path” Muse Glimmer 30B · Enterprise browsers · budget prompt · first choice

“Microsoft shop with M365 E5 → Edge for Business is effectively free and integrates perfectly with Entra ID. Start there.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Enterprise browsers · scale prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“they often need extra tooling for last-mile DLP, isolation, and deeper session controls” Perplexity Sonar · Enterprise browsers · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Edge for Business, over the 114 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Edge for Business was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Password Manager99 of 11426Compare →

Island Enterprise Browser93 of 11427Compare →

Prisma Access Browser26 of 1141Compare →

LayerX26 of 1140Not among the top eight

Seraphic21 of 1140Not among the top eight

Surf Security15 of 1140Compare →

Firefox ESR13 of 1140Not among the top eight

Palo Alto Prisma Access Browser12 of 1141Not among the top eight

Chrome Enterprise Core10 of 1148Not among the top eight

Talon10 of 1141Compare →

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Microsoft Edge for Business. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 113 of the 114 answers that named Microsoft Edge for Business and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

chromeenterprise.google69

venn.com61

expertinsights.com58

island.io57

gbhackers.com46

us.fitgap.com43

cybersecuritynews.com40

gartner.com38

g2.com34

paloaltonetworks.com34

480 of the 480 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Edge for Business came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-enterprise-browsers-compared46

expertinsights.com/web-security/the-top-enterprise-browsers41

us.fitgap.com/search/browsers/enterprise35

cybersecuritynews.com/best-enterprise-browsers34

expertinsights.com/web-security/best-secure-browsers-for-smbs32

venn.com/learn/browser-security/secure-enterprise-browser31

chromeenterprise.google/30

startupstash.com/top-secure-enterprise-browsers29

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Microsoft Edge for Business stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 390 a month (“microsoft edge for business”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 20 a month
Its own site: It sits on Microsoft's site (microsoft.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

14%

rank 3 of 80 in enterprise browsers

Segment leader

26%

Google Password Manager

First choices: 26 across its categories
Named in: 114 answers
Its own site cited: in 113 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Follow Microsoft Edge for Business

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Microsoft is the company behind Microsoft Edge for Business.

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On record

Company records

Also from Microsoft: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft 365 Administration, Microsoft 365 Backup, Microsoft 365 Compliance Center, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Microsoft 365 DSC and 164 more

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Microsoft Edge for Business's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Microsoft Edge for Business, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Microsoft Edge for Business by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Microsoft Edge for Business is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Microsoft Edge for Business, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Microsoft Edge for Business is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Microsoft Edge for Business is among the products AI models recommend first in Enterprise browsers this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/enterprise-browsers/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/microsoft-edge-for-business--enterprise-browsers-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Enterprise browsers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Enterprise browsers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/enterprise-browsers/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/microsoft-edge-for-business--enterprise-browsers-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Enterprise browsers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Enterprise browsers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/enterprise-browsers/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/microsoft-edge-for-business--enterprise-browsers-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Enterprise browsers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Enterprise browsers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.