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Not sure where you're getting your numbers from but they're WAY off:

If you were to take your "new car market" number of $14.5 billion and http://www.gbm.scotiabank.com/English/bns_econ/bns_auto.pdf Scotiabank's 2012 # of units produced: 62.45 million you'd have an average price of $232 per vehicle globally.

The US market alone the used car estimate is over 350 billion and while estimates are that twice as many used cars are sold as new - the prices are obviously radically different though. US new car sales are roughly 15 million at an average price of ~$30,000. That would make it a 450 billion dollar industry in the US alone.

The global game market is estimated at $47 billion (2010, excluding hardware), the US market has about 7 billion in new physical game sales and just under 2 billion in used game sales http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-02-06-USD14-8-billion-spent-on-gaming-in-us-last-year-says-npd

Here's the thing though - in both those cases you're only looking at dollar values - not units sold. Used game and used car prices vary and are significantly lower than new prices. If you estimate 7bil/$60 = 117 million units, 2 bil/$15 = 133 million units - not including private sales, gifting, loans, rentals, etc. In reality the numbers are too complex to calculate reasonably, new games aren't always sold for $60, used not for $15, etc etc. Conservative estimating though would suggest that the used market is at least as large, unit wise, as the new market and that's why Microsoft and publishers want control of it.

Scotiabank, the bank my company uses, actually REQUIRES you to use IE6 for their business banking website.

No, really:

https://www.scotiaconnect.scotiabank.com/sco-tp/browserdetect/browserInstruction.bns

Actually, that's not 100% correct, they also accept IE5.5!

Entrust Truepass is a real POS.

It's a java applet that some paranoid websites like to use. They claim "zero footprint" which is an outright lie. It only works with a handful of java JREs, and a few web browsers.

The only reason anyone buys it is that it's the only java applet with FIPS 140-1 certification, so if you need to tick that box on your checklist, and you like java, you're stuck with it.

Unfortunately I know Entrust Truepass well since my company's bank, Scotiabank (a major bank in Canada) requires Entrust Truepass for online business banking. Not only that, they require IE 5.5 or IE6 because this crappy java applet doesn't work well with firefox, chrome or safari.

And Entrust Truepass doesn't work with web proxies.

All the legacy IE6 users I've met tend to be government, non-technical corporates or extremely pro-Microsoft shops that bet the farm on IE6 and wrote everything in IE6/ActiveX fashion.

Ha. My company's bank website for business clients is a POS written with a crappy java app called TruePass from Entrust.

It is piece of crap that requires IE6 or IE5.5, and won't work with web proxies.

The bank is Scotiabank, the 3rd largest bank in Canada (and bigger than Citibank & US Bancorp). This is only the case for their business clients - they are forced to use the "Scotiaconnect" service. They even have a helpful browser detection webpage telling you how crappy their website is and requires ancient versions of IE.

Scotiabank's individual clients have a normal html-based website.

All the legacy IE6 users I've met tend to be government, non-technical corporates or extremely pro-Microsoft shops that bet the farm on IE6 and wrote everything in IE6/ActiveX fashion.

Ha. My company's bank website for business clients is a POS written with a crappy java app called TruePass from Entrust.

It is piece of crap that requires IE6 or IE5.5, and won't work with web proxies.

The bank is Scotiabank, the 3rd largest bank in Canada (and bigger than Citibank & US Bancorp). This is only the case for their business clients - they are forced to use the "Scotiaconnect" service. They even have a helpful browser detection webpage telling you how crappy their website is and requires ancient versions of IE.

Scotiabank's individual clients have a normal html-based website.

Really? This must be some time ago. I haven't encountered any problems with most government (CRA, Statcan (census) and the like) or bank websites and I'm running Firefox on Linux and Safari on the Mac (which is a minority browser). The only exception is the Air Canada site, which seems to be IE centric.

In fact the Canada Revenue Agency website even supports Opera, among other things.
http://www.netfile.gc.ca/browser-e.html

CIBC, Royal Bank, ScotiaBank, TD Bank, PC Financial all support Safari and other minority browsers
http://www.cibc.com/ca/legal/browser-security.html
http://www.royalbank.com/online/faqindex.html
http://www.scotiabank.com/cda/content/0,1608,CID43 57_LIDen,00.html
http://www.tdcanadatrust.com/ebanking/sup-br.jsp
http://www.banking.pcfinancial.ca/a/security/whatW eDoPopup.page#more_secure_browsers

For example:
ScotiaBank ABM locator

correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like this is not the first time Microsoft is wasting customer's time:

It seems like a patch for SP1 Internet explorer 6.0 (released released February 2, 2004 - KB832894) also broke functionality on several websites in the form of displaying "HTTP 500 internal server error" messages for no reason. 5 days later they released a patch to fix the patch.

My banking experience under linux is mostly positive. Four banks worked fine, but one was a total stinker.

Royal Bank - never had a problem under mozilla and linux or anything, for that matter. There was an unsupported time period for netscape 6, but it worked for me.

CIBC - works fine under netscape 4.x on linux but not on mozilla. Site is not actively hostile, the logon just doesn't work.

ScotiaBank - the pits. Terrible. A year or two ago, insisted on some bizarro win32 extra-security client. Left and haven't been back.

ING Direct - works fine with netscape /mozilla.

President's Choice Financial - works fine with netscape/mozilla.

Disclaimer: AC because I work for one of the above banks.

Bank of Nova Scotia provides two methods to connect to on-line banking. The first is a proprietary authorization software client, and the second is a simplified pure web-interface that in fact does work with Netscape in Linux. I e-mailed Bank of Nova scotia around two months ago with a complaint that they were eliminating a portion of their customer base by not supporting all OS's with their software (as well as their stupid software requirement meant that too use web banking on any other machine required the installation of that software...). Anyway shortly thereafter they put up the following site which, as you can see, no longer requires that software. The software was only necessary way back when browsers did not come with 128 bit encryption. Scotiabank wished to provide 128 bit encryption and thus created that piece of software to circumvent the absence of the encryption in the browsers of the time.

Correction, Bank of Nova Scotia uses a proprietary authorization client AS WELL as a simplified interface that in fact does work with Netscape in Linux. I e-mailed Bank of Nova scotia around a two months ago with a complaint that they were eliminating a portion of their customer base by not supporting all OS's with their software. Anyway shortly thereafter they put up the following site which, as you can see, no longer requires that software. The software was only necessary way back when browsers did not come with 128 bit encryption. Scotiabank wished to provide 128 bit encryption and thus created that piece of software to circumvent the absence of the encryption in the browsers of the time.