Apple’s Safari doubles market share and joins those eating IE users

Year on year it seems that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is losing users to the competition and this includes Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) Safari, which has nearly doubled its market share over the last two years.

In the last two years IE’s market share has lost 12 percentage points, Cnet report that their market share has dropped from 78.28 percent to 66.82 percent. These figures were apparently taken from Net Applications data.

The web browsers cashing in on these users jumping ship include: Google Chrome that has grown to 1.23 percent, Mozilla Firefox that jumped from 15.49 percent to 22.05 percent.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) can’t be happy seeing Apple double its share and this cannot be good for its operating system either. Cnet have wrote an article that goes into this very point and it’s their view that the more Microsoft’s browser market share drops, the easier it is for them to lose OS market share.

Do you agree with that point and what web browser do you use?