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Internet Browsers: Microsoft Deprecates Internet Explorer and Introduces Spartan
Coming this Summer, Microsoft plans to release the next version of the Windows OS, version 10. Microsoft also recently announced that they will be phasing out Internet Explorer in this version of the operating system, being replaced by a new browser that is currently being code-named ‘Spartan’. Internet Explorer 11 is expected to be released alongside Spartan on the new OS, but going forward, the focus will be on Spartan. Spartan is available for preview now as part of early releases of Windows 10.
While Internet Explorer is still the most widely used browser, its user base has been eroding, and it has a bad reputation among web designers, developers and other techies. Microsoft even poked fun at itself with the introduction of Internet Explorer version 9 in 2012, calling Internet Explorer the “browser you loved to hate”.
Joe Belfiore of Microsoft, wrote that Spartan is “fast, compatible, and built for the modern Web. Project Spartan is designed to work the way you do, with features enabling you to do cool things like write or type on a webpage. It’s a browser that is made for easy sharing, reading, discovery and getting things done online.”
Some highlights of the new browser include:
- A faster and standards-compliant rendering engine
- Cortana, a Siri-like assistant, to assist with web browsing
- Annotation and note taking directly on the web page
- Easy capture and clipping of web pages
While there has been some criticism of the Spartan browser, much of the pess has been good. For example, Mike O’Brien, head of platform for the Javascript framework Famo.us, said that the new Chakra JavaScript engine in Spartan “seems to just be hands down the fastest JavaScript engine out there now.”
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