Yes, this is a good thing for everyone. You can see the same pattern when Firefox shifted to faster upgrades, the people on the old regime decayed slowly, while people on the new regime transitioned quickly.
Its not even a new phenomenon, IE 9 plunged quickly (well, for an IE version) when IE10 started getting uptake, falling below IE 8:
If you want bad news for Microsoft, it's not in the rankings of their previous two versions, but the fact that their decreasing market share is spread across so many versions, each of which is a bit pitiful when compared with a single version of Firefox, with even the last version of Chrome and iPad Safari showing up Microsoft's efforts:
Its not even a new phenomenon, IE 9 plunged quickly (well, for an IE version) when IE10 started getting uptake, falling below IE 8:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop+tablet-browser_version_pa...
If you want bad news for Microsoft, it's not in the rankings of their previous two versions, but the fact that their decreasing market share is spread across so many versions, each of which is a bit pitiful when compared with a single version of Firefox, with even the last version of Chrome and iPad Safari showing up Microsoft's efforts:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop+tablet-browser_version-ww...