Microsoft announces its newest browser, Spartan

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Microsoft took to the stage today at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington to talk about the next chapter of Windows 10. One of the new items that is shipping with the OS is a new browser that the company hopes will reinvigorate its place in the browser wars.

The browser is called Spartan, for now, as it is a project name and it will support a new rendering engine.

You can add comments to any webpage with a new notes feature, a clipping tool makes it easy to save content to OneNote.There is a reading mode with an integrating reading list that will save content for offline viewing too.

And of course, Cortana is built in to Spartan too; she can search for information and pull in relevant about the page you are on.

Microsoft said that there are other features in the works for the browser too but they are not ready to ship the browser to everyone at this time.

This is an important release for Microsoft as Chrome and Firefox have slowly taken the mind share of consumers about which browser to use with Windows. While we need to get our hands on the browser before drawing any conclusions, if Microsoft plays its cards right here, they could finally kill off the legacy woes the branding of Internet Explorer has brought with it since the IE6 days.

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Benny561Posted:

i cant wait for the new software to come out

SagePosted:

Lets hope this finally rids them of their terrible name. Internet explorer was good in the 90s

ErisPosted:

I never liked internet explorer. I hope this new browser will be better.

EvoVIIIPosted:

I still will use Mozilla Firefox, although i might try out Spartan.

JesusOnAGoatPosted:

Even though never used IE, i will miss it just sitting there on my desktop/task bar :(

BruPosted:

Striker Probably will still use Chrome,

but thank god ie is no longer here


I know glad its gone but yeh I'll probs use Chrome still also.

TristanaPosted:

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Tristana Oh so they are giving up on the good old Internet Explorer :( RIP


The thing is, this new browser probably won't be too much different from IE. I just think nobody uses IE, so Microsoft have released a new browser to get their numbers up. Most people will try it out before downloading another browser, but nobody does that atm! They just delete IE and install Chrome/Firefox/Opera


Exactly, but it depends on what they have to offer with this new one, but I think it will be very hard to beat Chrome and Firefox in numbers.

MeetPosted:

Probably will still use Chrome,

but thank god ie is no longer here

xDustyxPosted:

Looks pretty good.
Even though i never understood all the hate IE got

VialPosted:

Rip in pieces 1969-2015 lol