The truth behind Internet Explorer has been revealed. By me today. I booted into Windows today, which I do rarely ever since I installed
Linux Mint (which by the way is a very awesome distribution). So what I decided to do was to remove some big and medium-sized programs which I wouldn't need anyway and among them was Internet Explorer 7 which I installed only because the stupid Windows Update was making me (that's my proof of having a legal copy).
Well anyway, what I noticed was that the size of this program was 6.66 Mb. Interesting... Is that another clue to the true purpose of Microsoft?