Maybe it has something to due with the fact IE7 is a "critical update" for XP? Also the fact Vista installs IE7 as well? Anyone else see the irony in this claim?

who cares, just because everybody thinks that if you go to the end of the world you will fall off, that does not make them right

ms can claim what ever it likes, at the end of the day, anybody that knows anything about surfing knows that ie is the last choice or atleast one of the last ones on the list

Yeah, and everyone under the Taliban is a Muslim, too. I doubt that most of these people who have it installed actually CHOSE to install it. But small facts like that don't concern MS and they don't think it worth mentioning apparently.