The file was surprisingly small. 250 megabytes. A standard install was gigabytes. This was the nature of the "Portable"—stripped down, compressed, a shadow of the real thing. He dragged the file to his desktop. The icon was the familiar bronze square with the white 'Ai', but it looked slightly off, like a cheap knock-off of a luxury watch.

A dialogue box popped up, but it wasn't the standard Windows Explorer view. It was a weird, retro version of a file browser, reminiscent of Windows 98. The buttons were pixelated.