On the windows platform, Internet Explorer is much more than a web browser -- not a hoax, just a bad belated april fools joke perhaps. Send us some of the articles online that talk about this?
-- i got distracted on IM and took to long to post my comment; but yeah, what nifkin said.
lol, buying IE, that would be like buying Safari, an os prepackaged/specific browser. If you have ever tried eradicating IE from your computer, you know just how deeply it is intermingled with everything else on windows, thus making it practically impossible to "buy".