While being bundled made it easier to start using IE, that didn't guarantee that people would try it, and it didn't guarantee that they'd continue to use it on

While being bundled made it easier to start using IE, that didn't guarantee that people would try it, and it didn't guarantee that they'd continue to use it on an ongoing basis after that. It may not be as obvious now, but at the time, IE often offered a better experience for both users and web developers. IE tended to be faster and stabler than its competitors, and releases like IE3 and IE5 offered a number of innovative features and technologies. IE coming with Windows clearly didn't prevent a large number of users from switching to Firefox once Firefox started offering a better experience, and then to Chrome once it started generally offering a better experience than both Firefox and IE did.