hmmm interesting... I can actually where they are coming from here.
When I first "went online" you had to download get a browser which was normally on your ISPs installation disk. Back in 1997 I chose Netscape which I stuck with for several years. I can remember the days when something like 95% of users did use Netscape.. I also remember going "wow" at Netscape Gold.
Then at some point M$ started pre-installing IE with the OS.. and within about a year or so, the shift had gone from 95% Netscape to 90% IE.
Netscape did themselves no favours with NS7? and even I abandoned it at that point.
These days I use a combination of browsers, but I find IE the most bulky and I'm really not just saying this.. but IE7 really doesn't seem to behave well on this machine.
Who else remembers the gawd-awful M$ Virtual JavaMachine that came pre-installed in about 1999..
..... or M$'s JScript version of Javascript that practically broke most sites unless you used IE?
Luckily Sun won that case.