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Why do browsers and file explorer use "anonymous" to try to login via FTP. Even with credentials provided?

We have setup a FileZilla Server.  Anytime a user tries to login with file explorer, IE, or Chrome, we get "anonymous" login attempts.  The log below is just 1 person accessing via IE.

(000673) 2/10/2016 7:44:42 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> Connected on port 21, sending welcome message...
(000673) 2/10/2016 7:44:42 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> 220-FileZilla Server 0.9.54 beta
(000673) 2/10/2016 7:44:42 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> 220 Welcome to testuser's FTP.
(000673) 2/10/2016 7:44:42 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> USER anonymous
(000673) 2/10/2016 7:44:42 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> 331 Password required for anonymous
(000673) 2/10/2016 7:44:42 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> PASS *****
(000673) 2/10/2016 7:44:42 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> 530 Login or password incorrect!
(000673) 2/10/2016 7:44:42 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> disconnected.
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> Connected on port 21, sending welcome message...
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> 220-FileZilla Server 0.9.54 beta
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> 220 Welcome to testuser's FTP.
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> USER testuser
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> 331 Password required for testuser
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - (not logged in) (88.88.88.88)> PASS ********
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - testuser (88.88.88.88)> 230 Logged on
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - testuser (88.88.88.88)> CWD /
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - testuser (88.88.88.88)> 250 CWD successful. "/" is current directory.
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - testuser (88.88.88.88)> TYPE A
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - testuser (88.88.88.88)> 200 Type set to A
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - testuser (88.88.88.88)> PASV
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - testuser (88.88.88.88)> 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,20,1,222,198,158)
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - testuser (88.88.88.88)> LIST
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - testuser (88.88.88.88)> 150 Opening data channel for directory listing of "/"
(000674) 2/10/2016 7:45:12 AM - testuser (88.88.88.88)> 226 Successfully transferred "/"

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With it doing this, FileZilla anti-hammering kicks in and then increases the delay between logins and folder access.  

I understand why it does it, what I cant seem to figure out is how to explain it to a programmer (bossman) that we need to use an FTP client over file explorer, and why IIS did not have issues with this.
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