[Lt Major Burns]

yup. IE was the reason the PC took over in the first place, or at least the final nail in the coffin. every PC shipped had windows on it by about 1996, every copy of windows was completely integrated with IE by 1998. IE didn't start the internet, but it started to define it, and by IE4, netscape, the previous standard, was dying. ActiveX controls became the standard, and ever since then, every webpage had to be complient with IE, or it would fail. to make it easier to make sure it complied with these standards, you made web pages on a pc. i would still choose a mac. to be sure it wotrks on any platform.