That is an old quote from them. That was part of the antitrust case, in which a little piece of software by Shane Brooks was able to easily remove IE from the computer. I just went looking and didn't see a more current version then XPlite.
However, there has to be a way to do it (haven't looked at the Microsoft links), since they lost the EU battle, and even had to offer a version without it (which has since been canceled).
That said, I will agree the poster might want to look at and try Linux.

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