Net Applications has released their latest data for online OS and browser market share in month of January. Mac OS X continued its growth whereas Windows continued its decline in operating system market share. Similarly in browser market share, Safari and Firefox continued to grow, while Internet Explorer lost market share. iPhone’s market share also rose to 0.48 percent and it looks like iPhone will surpass Linux by end of 2009.
In less than one year Mac OS X has gained more than 2.45 percent market share. In March 2008 Mac had 7.48 percent market share and in January 2009 it increased to 9.93 percent. iPhone’s online market share also increased from 0.15 percent in March 2008 to 0.48 percent in January 2009.
On the browser side, Firefox share has gone from 17.83 percent in March 2008 to 21.53 in January 2009. Safari rose from 5.82 percent in March last year to 8.29 percent last month. Internet Explorer market share has gone down from 74.8 percent in March 2008 to 67.55 in January 2009. And it looks like IE will keep losing market share as more and more people become aware of better browser options like FireFox. Safari and Chrome.