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I use IE for work because there are some IE-oriented compliance issues, so I use them back-to-back on a daily basis.
I noticed someone pointed out that IE was built in to Windows, therefore the download size advantage of Firefox was irrelevant. I would respectfully suggest that you factor in the megabytes and megabytes of patches necessary to keep IE reasonably safe to use.
Also, one of the advantages of Open Source development is that the people making the product won't go out of business and leave all its clients in the lurch. Also, with Open Source, if the software is taken in a direction the client doesn't want to go (less secure, bloated, unstable, oversimplified, etc.), you can simply switch over to something else without dealing with nasty licensing contracts, and your second choice can be almost identical, thanks to the GNU Public License. You also don't get locked into proprietary file formats.
It might seem ridiculous that Microsoft would be essentially dead in the water five years from now--but look at what happened to IBM's OS/2 Warp, which completely disappeared from the desktop in as much time. Look at what happened to Atari, who crashed and burned shortly after mucking up the Nintendo contract back in 1983, and now exists only in name.
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