Microsoft’s browsers last month continued to swirl toward the drain of second place, new data published last week showed.

The several editions of Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge lost a combined 1.4 percentage points of desktop and notebook user share in March, the fourth consecutive monthly decline of more than a point and the 15th straight month of declines of any size.

IE and Edge — analytics company Net Applications dumps the latter’s user share into the bucket labeled “IE” — accounted for 43.4% of all browsers used to reach the Web last month. A year ago, that number was 56.5%.

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