[Last Visible Dog]

Since IE is part of Windows by Microsoft's claim, then the amount of money made off IE is some percentage of the billions of dollars of Windows income.

This is really is not complicated:

IE is FREE

FireFox is FREE

[antiRepublicrat]

This is really is not complicated: IE is FREE

In the business world, nothing like that is free. The IE programmers' salaries come out the Windows bucket since they are developing what is a feature of Windows, just like any other feature. Sure, you could say every individual feature of Windows is free, but you still have to pay for the whole.