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Apple’s long and continuing push accompanied by the angst expressed by a few people when Safari was offered to window’s users has finally paid off and it is now seeing a tangible increase in its market share. Slowly, steadily, Apple seems to have got its name firmly entrenched in the minds of ever discerning web users.

According to itwire.com

”Whereas Safari 3.0 for Windows never achieved more than 0.07 percent, in April 2008 version 3.1 picked up 0.21 percent. Version 3.0 dropped back to 0.02 percent.

OK, that’s still a drop in the bucket when you consider that Internet Explorer still accounts for over 75 percent, with Firefox on 17 percent. Safari’s overall share is a whisker over five and a half percent.”

But actually, reports say that there were more site visits from users on Safari for Windows than there were from people using Windows devices.

It remains to be seen if the upward trend in the number of people using the Safari is because people have willingly started using it or was it just the fact that people suddenly found out that Safari has been automatically installed on their systems and then they probably decided to check it out.

Only time can tell and we can wait!

Picture: CyberNet

Safari 3.1 for windows is still in its infancy and was only released in middle of March, so we should not expect any major increases in usage yet. Nevertheless, the percentage of internet users using Safari in March posted a positive increase from 5.70% in February to 5.82% in March.

Of course, Safari 3.1 came out of beta too late in the month for us to truly determine the impact the new version had in the browser market. April’s statistics will likely be a better judge of the direction the Safari browser is headed in. Among the Safari users, the amount of people using Safari 3.1, at the expense of other versions, obviously posted the greatest increase. Clearly, Safari is still gaining a foothold in the market, but the statistics do offer some interesting insights. As Safari on Windows becomes more established we can only expect the Safari browser share to increase, because Windows users represent the vast majority of the internet community.