If you are looking through your error logs and see that you are missing a browserconfig.xml and you have no idea what this is, you are not alone. It is a Windows things and it is easily fixable.

First of all what the heck is it. Browser configuration files also known as browserconfig is used to define things like tile backgrounds, badge updates, and tile notifications. Browser configuration files let you set these images using external XML files rather than metadata within the HTML markup of a webpage.

What is it?! What is that thing!? Well don’t touch it! But, I did touch it, in fact I took it home. You see I collect old computers people throw away. Most of the time people have no idea what to do with an old PC. The only thing they understand is that they don’t want their information to pass into the hands of someone else. Thats why they give them to me. They ask if I would wipe the PC clean and then send it to the happy PC computing ground in the sky.

I Can’s say it enough, Stay Away!

They changed the server packages they offer but never told existing customers of the newly available resources. When I questioned them about being billed for inferior services than they offer on their website they told me it was my responsibility to keep abreast of their services. If I wanted to avail myself of them it was up to me to upgrade my server.

Instead of thinking outside the box, how about thinking inside the box, the ASUS Chromebox to be specific. Today there are more and more alternatives to just either a Windows or Mac machine. This is something that more people should be aware of.

Byte the Big Apple, don’t mind the proprietary screws and all the glue and solder. Why my love affair with Apple may becoming to an end, and will others fall out of love as well is the question of the day.