Internet Explorer Rocks! It's Soooo Consistent

And when I say consistent, I'm referring to CONSISTENTLY SHITTY.

I realize that every other minute, IE gets blasted for being bad at this or bad at that or whatever.  But why is it, that when you do a fresh install of windows, and try to use IE, it's nothing but warning popups. phishing alerts, etc, just by surfing to naughty sites like... downloads.microsoft.com??

Do you want to add downloads.microsoft.com to your list of trusted sites?  No you piece of shit, I want to GO THERE.  In my browser.  Watch closely IE:  Open Firefox, type in a url, and .... wait for it.... wait for it.... KABLAM, the page renders without any questions.