According to Net Applications market share figures for January 2010 IE8 has just taken the world’s most used browser ‘top spot’ away from IE6.  The current top 5  and their market share now read as follows;

1. IE8 - 22.31%
2. IE6 - 20.07%
3. Firefox 3.5 - 17.01%
4. IE7 - 14.58%
5. Firefox 3.0 - 5.29%

The change in fortunes for IE6 is thought to be generally due to the decline in use of Windows XP.