The latest version of Microsoft’s browser has finally overtaken Internet Explorer 6, now accounting for 22.3 per cent of the global browser market in January 2010, according to market share measurements carried out by NetApplications.

Interestingly IE8 only took 10 months to become the global browser leader. However, its recent boost can probably be attributed to many people moving away from IE6, after Microsoft admitted that Internet Explorer was the weak link in recent hacker attacks on Google's systems in China.

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