Google, Linux, and Firefox are on the way up. Microsoft is on the way down.

A survey of 168,000 surfers hitting business web sites has found Internet Explorer has lost nearly two percentage points of market share. IE’s open source nemesis Firefox, meanwhile, doubled its presence.

Janco Associates found IE had 83.7 per cent of the market for this month, down from 84.85 per cent, while Firefox grew from 4.23 per cent to 10.28 per cent. Janco believes Firefox could take 25 per cent market share in the next quarter.

25% by next quarter seems like a bit of a strech, but I guess it depends on what sites you are looking at. Obviously Firefox dominates the stats here at FG. Geeks know best.