Something that has always fascinated me is how large companies and or people who work in very powerful positions can be completely incompetent sometimes. I am thinking a bank manager not being able to run a bank, things like that.
But in this instance my confusion is based around Microsoft, one of the most successful companies in the world that not only writes countless websites, but also builds the browser that (according to figures I have found from April) nearly half of all devices use to browse the internet. So why, I ask, are they unable to make websites run properly within said browser - most confusingly, their own?
I am an odd one when it comes to browsers. I use social centre RockMelt at home so that I can chat with friends and keep up to date on my feeds while I browse. At work I use Mozilla Firefox, because it just works. But as I am a Microsoft Certified Professional, and I work for a Microsoft Partner, I need to access their websites. Now conveniently for them, they have managed to make the websites they build have areas that only work in Internet Explorer. So I also have IE installed at home and at work.
Now this would be fine, I have no problem in flicking on to IE when I need to access my accreditation certificates or download some software from the Microsoft Partner Network. But the thing is, I normally find everything takes twice as long to do in IE if it gets there at all. Today, it took me several hours to go through the required pages and sign in processes in the correct order in the correct browser while holding my right ear for just the right length of time before I was able to download one piece of software. I completed the Project Plan quicker than I downloaded the software I used to write it!
Just a little rant that will make all of you who think computers just pick on you or you are at fault realise, it is not just you. Computers hate us all. Especially those of us that try to tame them it seems...
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