Windows 7 or 8

[RJNorton]

Last Thursday I downloaded and installed Windows 8.1 and am using it as I make this post. For the first two days it seemed obvious what Microsoft thinks of Google. I am posting a sample screenshot of the way search results were displayed on my monitor. For this example I used a search for John Hay:

It took me until Saturday to find what was wrong. There is a setting in IE11 called "Compatibility view settings." In order to display Google's search results properly one has to uncheck "Use Microsoft compatibility lists." Once this is done, the results for the John Hay search appear normally.

I am sure there a lot of people out there who wonder why Google search results don't display normally in Windows 8.1. Also, if you don't like IE11 (which comes with Windows 8.1) you are not allowed to revert back to IE9, IE10, etc. You are stuck with IE11, like it or not.