Let's get one thing straight: My comment was not "extremely dishonest." It's opinionated, sure. It's my judgement of the situation. Second: In my opinion, IE

Let's get one thing straight: My comment was not "extremely dishonest." It's opinionated, sure. It's my judgement of the situation. Second: In my opinion, IE was becoming non-viable for end users for security reasons, and baking it into Windows was making the entire system non-viable. If you can't surf the Internet without contracting multiple virii, it's just not a viable product anymore. Especially for businesses and individuals who have bank accounts, credit cards, etc.