And I'll still tell you I wish someone at Microsoft had injected a little more art to this thing. You'll tell me this is because it hews so closely to Chrome. The new Microsoft Edge looks like, oh, a browser. Once past this absurdity, I encountered disappointment. What peculiar robot programmed this thing?Įven more peculiar, however, was that the rest of the downloading instructions were in English.
I smell the dastardly machination of artificial intelligence. I speak Polish, but, despite several reader inquiries over the years, English is my most natural language. However, I've never set any default for the Polish language. This is somewhat related to the fact my parents were uncompromising Poles. As I began the downloading process, I got this peculiar greeting: Pobierz nowa przegladarke Microsoft Edge. The first stroke of imagination was the last I'd expected. I know it's supposed to be unobtrusive, yet I'm always hoping some peculiarly imaginative force will reinvent elements of technology that have become foundational.
I stare at a browser for a considerable part of my day. Why not, I thought, experiment a little? Why not see if it could play with my relatively new and already decrepit MacBook Air. Despite it being based on Google's open-source Chromium, it turned my head. Last week, however, Microsoft suddenly thrust a new Edge beneath my eyes. I preferred, of course, for Google to take it anyway with its myriad of intrusive tentacles.Įventually, Firefox caught up, I went to confession and returned full-time to the browser with a sliver of a soul. I wasn't going to give Google my whole life. I can then remember being long loyal to Firefox before its inability to handle video - at the time - thrust me into the slightly grubby clutches of Google's browser. Soon, it just felt dreary, which is quite an achievement for a browser. I can remember using Internet Explorer in long-gone times. Nor to this one: Do you remember the moment when you switched from Safari to Firefox? Or Firefox to Chrome? Or from Internet Explorer to Dear-God-anything-else. I'm not sure too many people would have an instant response. Please lie down on my newly-upholstered purple chaise-longue, clutch at this small glass of Moscatel and answer me this: How did you decide which browser to use? Everyone needs to buy one of these cheap security tools.Hunker down: The chip shortage and higher prices are set to linger for a while.Linus Torvalds: Juggling chainsaws and building Linux.
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