For me its just the desire to try to help others keep from suffering the majority of exploits written for IE. My scare was an ActiveX/Javascript exploit that stole thousands of WoW account info and then the items off those accounts for a total of millions of dollars. I was running FF and fortuantely didn't get hit clicking innocently enough a link to another site something that happens every day on sites everywhere. Those running IE though got to deal with an overloaded Blizzard CS for weeks on end. Now I never surf the net without FF and NoScript if I can help it.
Thats not to say that IE is a bad browser though its real achilles heel is the fact it is so tied to the operating system that things that exploit IE exploit Windows and thats why its particularly system damaging. I actually have read that IE was a great browser for the few years it was maintained to run on Mac's specifically because it was actually standalone for once. But of course that will never happen on Windows because then people would have the option to remove IE even if making it that way would greatly minimize the damage IE exploits cause.
As for the OP the only advice I can give is my also limited sucess in getting family to switch. My dads issue was his favorites he couldn't move them himself I had to do it. Once that was out of the way that was it the big problem was the favorites. Dunno if thats any use to you for his not wanting to learn a new interface but maybe people are too proud to ask for help sometimes.
Now Playing : Links Crossbow Training(Wii), Super Mario Galaxy(Wii) FE: Path of Radiance(GC)
