"It's not that consumers are so loyal to Microsoft, but more they are apathetic,"

I agree with this. IE is just hassle free compared to all the others that you have to download a MILLION plugins just to make it run and then theres still sites that won't work, plus they're slow on opening unless you have a fastass PC, and even then its still slow on opening, though its faster and more accurate on loading pages, I'll admit.

I use IE and will continue to because I have a dialup connection and it very annoying to have to download a ton of files to get a browser to semi-work, and then it still won't load most of the sites I visit, while IE is compatible with anything and everything.

So what I'm trying to say is IE may not be great but Firefox and Mozilla suck far worse.