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I think Microsoft feels it needs to provide a better browser because the popular alternative is controlled by their competitor. Chrome itself does its best to make sure you get pulled into the Google ecosystem - you need a Google account just to use the sync feature. On top of that, when you switch Chrome to its full-screen Windows 8 app mode (for touch screen support, etc.) it basically turns into a clone of Chrome OS:

http://i.imgur.com/YJ1OJqi.png

Curious that they're calling it a 'new' rendering engine at all. I could have sworn they said somewhere that it was still the same Trident engine, but without the legacy IE bits. Also, according to Paul Thurrott [1], the browser team was considering WebKit/Blink and ultimately decided to stick with Trident – apparently because of Google's control over Blink.

[1]: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/470/maybe-window...

For those wondering, the app is called "Translator". I've also found the translation to be pretty good, though it tends to trip when it comes to handwriting.

https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/translator/2cb7...

I can't speak for the other two, but I believe Chocolatey is being integrated (or vice versa) with OneGet, the built-in package manager for Windows 10.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/chocolatey/a8WdEoF-M...

Bing provides search results for Siri and powers Cortana. I'm sure somebody noticed.

If it helps, the debugger points to an invalid ʹ character in 01135560588655f631606d051ab4cd4df545eead.js. I circled the character in blue [1]. Beyond that I haven't the foggiest idea.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/WgiitFj.png

I'm getting the following error [1] every time I try to open the page with IE11 on Windows 8.1. It prevents bootstrap.js from loading, which then prevents everything else from working and just shows a blank white page.

Might explain why some people are having problems loading the site, though it works fine in Firefox for me.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/HWdHT33.png

This submission (and several others) were all merged into one big post here [1], along with all of the comments.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595905