Everyone loves a good mascot, and since most other browsers have one, apparently Microsoft felt that IE should have one too. I guess slow performance and broken pages wasn’t what the company wanted the browser to be known for.
Microsoft introduced a new anime girl as their browser Mascot. Her name is Aizawa. She has a Facebook Page, email address, she’s 18 (so totally legal 😉 ), and her birthday is the same as that of the début of IE. She’s apparently quite confident in her abilities and doesn’t want to be clumsy and slow any more.
We’ll see about that.