I'm sorry but if you depend on microsoft to keep IE secure with their rate of patches to discovered exploits you are suffering from "ostrich syndrome"
I trust them yes. Development cycles is not the God of security, nor is their current list of exploits. This was a very anti MS comment towards IE, and it almost disheartens me, especially with a direct insult. I trust IE and MS enough that I support their products, beta test their software, and have never once in my entire use of windows been cracked. IE's security patches are protecting the users that are not already securing it by hand via the settings. I would rather you not reply to this, as this is my own opinion I just stated, and would rather this not turn into an opinion flame war over MS. You stated yours, I stated mine, please let it die here.