I use Firefox, but still I don't think IE is a bad application.
Heck is way way better then AOL browser that believe it or not a lot of people still uses around here LOL.
I'm trying to get into Chrome , I really want to like it, especially since I love lightweight and faster applications opposite to large , bulky milestones of heavy duty OS integrated programs...., but somehow I find in lacking , don't know exactly what it is, but I just like the way I layed out favorites and stuff around here on Firefox and it's not worth to change it ....yet.
But yeah as a browser IE does a lot of things right ( tabs, favorites, add ons, customization, ) and it hasn't any trouble displaying any page I trow at it, while some obscure ones do have problems in other browsers and clearly go for " optimized for IE blah blah...".
It didn't happen in the past couple of years or so mind you, but a few times I got trouble loading some pages and I had to use IE instead of firefox.
So although I prefer firefox, it wouldn't be fair to say that IE sucks.
You can do worse than that. Just my 2 cents.