Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Bing?

Bing is picking up users according to the web analytics gurus of the internet. I like the simple interface, with good query results. It's even received good reviews from sites like TechCrunch. So why do I have such a hard time switching to it from Google?

At first I thought it was just muscle memory. Or laziness. Or maybe it was my confidence in old reliable. Or maybe I still had a bad taste in my mouth from using any of Microsofts previous web products. Then it finally dawned on me. Internet Explorer. Being a web developer I've really come to loath IE's wonky standardless rendering. How can I trust Microsoft to do anything correctly on the web if they can't even get their own browser to behave with the rest of the internet? I need development harmony and Microsoft to their credit is doing everything they can to gain that trust back. It's just going to take time.

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