Yeah. A typical non-tech person is just as likely to say their PC is running on Microsoft or Google. Maybe they’ll say Edge if they are really knowledgeable.
I once had a user all me to “install the latest version of the internet on her computer”.
My first thought was “that’s gonna take a hot minute…”
She was referring to wanting the latest version of internet explorer, of course, but it didn’t stop my “take everything literally” brain from going on a humorous aside imagining downloading the entire internet to this users machine.
Yeah. A typical non-tech person is just as likely to say their PC is running on Microsoft or Google. Maybe they’ll say Edge if they are really knowledgeable.
I worked tech support in a call center, a thousand years ago.
Telling people to click on the “big blue E” was used nearly every call. Not much has changed.
In the case of the browser, they are still only describing use, not brand name.
They don’t know what a browser is. That’s just “The Internet”.
Edit: I got whooshed.
I once had a user all me to “install the latest version of the internet on her computer”.
My first thought was “that’s gonna take a hot minute…”
She was referring to wanting the latest version of internet explorer, of course, but it didn’t stop my “take everything literally” brain from going on a humorous aside imagining downloading the entire internet to this users machine.
I was making a joke about edging.
Edit: It was pretty subtle, to be honest. Not my finest masturbation-related humor.