Do u know that microsoft payed in european union hundreds of millions as a fine for the IE? The reason? it comes with the windows so it force you to use it, so its monopoly. The windows 7 will come in (Europe at least, not sure about US) without the IE explorer installed. This is giving you a good explanation about the % of the ppl who are using the IE. Also how many sites did you find recently that are incompatible with mozzila? All the developers now are getting serious the new browsers especially now that are far far faster, safer, with lots of customizations, compared to IE. As you said you are just a pc user, and as i said i am professional (systems engineer), so maybe, just maybe i know something more about regarding the computers. Enough with Mr Bill who is selling us iron for the price of gold.
The choice is urs. I just giving you some facts