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Long time ago in a galaxy far far away a browser called Google Chrome gained followers with this promise...
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When 'Edge' will be a browser we may compare its performances to others...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Once I got used to 10 and Edge, I liked them both. But I have always been a little weird! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Cornelius Henning wrote: a little
A little?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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OK, my OCD has been aroused. I've seen "duct" tape too often lately. The original word is "duck" tape, because water slides off of it.
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Possibly, but it is a quote from a penguin... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Actually it is Duct Tape, which is a product usually sold in hardware stores, used to facilitate the sealing of air duct parts (as seen in Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil).
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And, I heard that you should never use it on ducts, especially, heating ducts.
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Google "Duck Tape" and this is the first link:
Duck Brand® Duct Tape - Strong, Sticky & Waterproof
You are conflating the original "duct" tape name with the product
Duck Tape that uses the similarity in sound to establish a brand
identity. In the military we called the OD green version "100 mile
an hour tape" because it repaired canvas and stood up to wind but the
original use was sealing ducts in heating-ventilation air-conditioning
systems.
My OCD sees your OCD and raises you CDO... in alphabetical order, because
that is how it must be.
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Something new I thought I knew but didn't. Thanks. I'll have to come up with other excuses for my behavior. 
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I took the plunge and installed Windows 10 as well, mostly because I'm the techy guy in my little group and the others will install it anyway so I figured I'd better get out ahead of it.
If you're worried about the spying like I was, this 'Destroy Windows 10 Spying' [^]utility works pretty good. It's mostly firewall rules and re-routing IP addresses in the HOSTS file...it gets updated frequently...wouldn't surprise me if Google or Apple was financing it
Windows 10 is working fine with all my programs and hardware. I never much cared about the Start menu (I use shortcuts on my desktop for everything) but the new one with the tiles looks pretty neat. I haven't used Cortana and have no plans to...I gave up on the idea of talking to computers back in the 90's with my SoundBlaster card's voice commands...I find talking to computers very wearing.
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"Dr. Sbaitso."
Haven't heard that name in around 20 years and yet still they remain burned into my mind, ready to be summoned in response to any memory of the Creative Labs from the period.
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What's old is new again, I guess. The amount of money I spent on SoundBlasters over the years! The amount of time I spent tweaking IRQs and editing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT! Now it's all just throw away features on motherboards.
I'm holding out for a computerized doctor that can prescribe medications
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DaveX86 wrote: I'm holding out for a computerized doctor that can prescribe medications
Aww hell, man, that's been around for years. Just watch the old movie "Andromeda Strain". The computer at Wildfire was prescribing meds back in the 60's! 
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"My name is Dr. Sbaitso, tell me how you are doing today."
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You need to look closer at Cortana. It doesn't require talking to it. It does a lot of good stuff. I really appreciate how fast it finds stuff. Like, who knows where Add Remove Programs is in the settings? But just type "add remove" and you will have a choice.
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That just the standard search, it doesn't require Cortana.
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I'm not sure what the "standard search" is. But as far as I know, in Win10, Cortana is the ONLY place to do such a search.
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In Windows 7 or Windows 8.x (with classic shell), hit the start button and type "add remove", the top entry in the list that shows up is "Add or remove programs".
Also, you can get there by selecting the "Programs and Features" entry in the control panel.
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Oh sure, that is in the old windows. I used it all the time there too. I was just saying that that feature is in Cortana now plus a lot more, plus a lot faster.
The main point was that Cortana doesn't require voice to do anything.
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Edge: Fix up the silly address bar, and allow extensions, and it'll be up there with the best.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Don't forget the context menu.
A browser where I can't select and right click 'search' will not be used by me!
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Ooh, thank you. All these years and I've never even noticed that in Chrome until you mentioned it.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - Liber AL vel Legis 1:40, Aleister Crowley
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A C# based scripting language would be nice.
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Or not...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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