It's just Chrome with a Microsoft skin now. Microsoft could've made it look like IE and attracted a lot of that crowd with "same familiar UI, better rendering"

It's just Chrome with a Microsoft skin now. Microsoft could've made it look like IE and attracted a lot of that crowd with "same familiar UI, better rendering", but instead they decided to take the dumbed-down UI that Chrome had and add more MS-specific yet largely-useless or hostile features.