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MARKET RESEARCH company Net Applications has reported that Microsoft is starting to lose its grip in terms of both operating system and web browser market shares.

The month of December has already been unkind to Microsoft . The software giant's Windows operating system and its Internet Explorer browser saw significant market share drops reported on back-to-back days.

December 03, 2008 - 2 hours, 6 minutes ago Share Comments NetApplications is out with a couple of new metrics of market share for operating systems and browsers, and the news is good for open source.

Though Apple's market share has been on the rise, there hasn't been the flood of viruses and malware that has plagued Windows for years.

Global server sales fell 5.2 percent in the third quarter, the largest decline since the fourth quarter of 2002.

The first of every month brings Market Share NetApplication data which kinda/sorta gives us an idea of how different platforms and browsers are doing against one another.

IBM Corp.'s computer sales took a bigger slice of a shrinking pie, an industry research company said Monday.

The number of Windows users surfing the web fell below 90 per cent for the first time, making for Microsoft's biggest market share drop in the past two years, according to new statistics.

Apple's Safari web browser has crested 7% of worldwide browser market share according to online research firm Net Applications.While Safari's accomplishment is significant the biggest winner is clearly Mozilla's Firefox which crested 20% market share and climbed nearly an entire percentage point in one month.

Earlier today, we reported that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has dropped below 70% for the first time nearly nine years.