Explorer vs Chome

Really no contest, chrome is the far popular choice, for many reasons, so I won't waste time talking about what we already know. But I do want to take a moment to share with you all a moment of affirmation for these truisms that I experienced earlier today. I had to open explorer today because some website wasn't playing nice with chrome (This is where the fourteen explorer fans jump out from behind a bush, and say - "Ha! See! If you used explorer you wouldn't ever need to... um.... open explorer... Well I guess you would have to.... every time you used the internet...")  Anyways, so I had to open the start menu, and find the explorer icon, cause explorer is about 12th in line for getting a spot on my already full task bar. Now, at the time I was thinking to myself, "I wonder if explorer is as bad as I think it is? Maybe Microsoft has improved it since I last used it- maybe my opinions towards it are just amplified personifications of a million software snobs who love to be condescending to those who use "inferior" software. Nope- its actually that terrible, as I found as soon as I clicked the icon (well, technically not "as soon"- I had to wait *gasp* a few seconds for it to open). I saw this:

(note the more worthy icons in my task bar)

Wow- an entire page (which didn't load fast- bit and pieces of it pop until existence until it fully congealed) of things I do not want to look at- adds, pointless news, I just want a search bar. However, it seems explorer has taken the approach of "If people just want search bars, we'll give them 7!" seriously- seven search bars. 3 of them are directly bing search bars- what are they thinking at explorer head quarters? Maybe if we put enough bing search bars in the user's face, statically, they will start to you our search engine by means of confusion. If so, bings main user base may be confused gazelles driven into the spear lined pit that is bing by the maddening drums played by the reckless Microsoft advertising devision. Wow- that may have gone a bit too far; I should probably scale that back given, let me see (tabbing over to new tab in chrome), 11% of my readers use explorer (71% use chrome). Now, I want to be fair- I realize that when you use explorer, you can get rid of alot of that stuff, and change your home page, and what not, and its probably faster than it once was- I guess my main issue is that when you first start using, the way it presents itself is terrible. Also, google does everything- docs, email, search engine, bloging, just everything, so I like to be on the browser where that stuff can be integrated- if I choose to.