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Very much worth the download. Anything is better than IE. If you ever do any web development, you'll learn the power of CSS - you can change the entire look and layout of a page in hours (where without CSS it could take weeks and months). Also, there are standards for (X)HTML and CSS, that are in place so that you can have one set of guidelines to follow for your page to look good in most browsers. Problem is, IE doesn't support it properly. You have to come up with all kinds of hacks to get the simplest of standard pages displaying properly in IE.
And then there's PNG images. They're handy: better compression than GIF, more colours than GIF, and levels of transparency - that is, you can have a semi-opaque image if you want to. Well, except that IE makes transparent PNGs look horrible...
IE is holding the web back. Switch to any other browser - I think Firefox is the best but some will disagree - and get as many people as possible to do the same. When IE is extinguised, the web will be better for it.
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