Rather than follow Microsoft’s mandate to update older editions of Internet Explorer (IE) by January, a significant chunk of IE’s users switched to Google’s Chrome browser instead, data released Monday showed.

In August 2014, Microsoft suddenly told most IE users that they needed to be running IE11 by Jan. 12, 2016, or face a shut-off of security updates for their frequently-patched browsers. After that date, Microsoft will support IE9 only on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008; IE10 only on Windows Server 2012; and only IE11 on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, and by then, Windows 10.

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