Can Migration Assistant Copy MSIE

My wife has an iMac that has MS Internet Explorer installed on it. She needs it to do account transfers at our bank. If I bought a MacBook Pro, would Migration Assistant be able to import a working version of MSIE from her iMac? I ask the question because Microsoft have stopped making MSIE available for Macs.
Thank in advance,
Bud Cook
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Hi Bud;
I guess that is your call but there is absolute no
reason to write a web site for a business so that it
is browser specific. They should just be written to
the HTML standards. If they do that then there are no
problems. My thinking is that this is especially true
of banks.
I do my banking with a credit union also and i can
use whatever browser I prefer to use. They don't make
any restrictions on what I use.
I am quite confident if you were too complain about
this and present the security problems they are
leaving themselves open to by forcing their user to
access them via MSIE, they would listen.
Allan
I did tell them that everyone including IBM is telling us to use FireFox instead of MSIE but I got no response. I doubt they care much about Macs and if you have a PC, they also support Netscape.
As I pointed out above, there is only one function that won't work with Safari.
I've owned PC's since before IBM made them available to the general public and I've installed and used every version of MSIE including Betas since day one. I've yet to experience a virus on any of my machines.
I currently use MSIE 7.0 Beta 2, FireFox 1.5 and Netscape 8.1. Unfortunately, none of them work on a Mac.
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

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