Czuch: IE is not really needed anymore, and it would be quite easy for a shop to have at the counter a choice of browsers for people to install, or a single disk with a selection of browsers that comes in the box.
Also IE is not the safest browser on the web, so why bundle a greater security risk with a PC??
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