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Is Microsoft Getting Ready To Replace Internet Explorer ?

December 30, 2014 by Raymond Hackney

With Microsoft getting ready for a Windows 10 launch there is talk they may be scrapping Internet Explorer for a new browser with the codename Spartan. ZDNet covered the story. MicrosoftSpartan.com was registered today, not by Microsoft but by a registrant in Nepal. Other names like DownloadSpartan.com and SpartanExplorer.com were registered today.

From the article:

There’s been talk for a while that Microsoft was going to make some big changes to Internet Explorer in the Windows 10 time frame, making IE “Spartan” look and feel more like Chrome and Firefox.

It turns out that what’s actually happening is Microsoft is building a new browser, codenamed Spartan, which is not IE 12 — at least according to a couple of sources of mine.

Thomas Nigro, a Microsoft Student Partner lead and developer of the modern version of VLC, mentioned on Twitter earlier this month that he heard Microsoft was building a brand-new browser. Nigro said he heard talk of this during a December episode of the LiveTile podcast.

Spartan is still going to use Microsoft’s Chakra JavaScript engine and Microsoft’s Trident rendering engine (not WebKit), sources say. As Neowin’s Brad Sams reported back in September, the coming browser will look and feel more like Chrome and Firefox and will support extensions. Sams also reported on December 29 that Microsoft has two different versions of Trident in the works, which also seemingly supports the claim that the company has two different Trident-based browsers.

Read the full story on ZDNet

Filed Under: Internet News, Technology

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

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Comments

  1. kd says

    December 30, 2014 at 2:45 pm

    This would be smart of them. In 2009 IE had 70% market share. They are now down to about 25%. The browser is horrible to work with, and they should not have waited this long to make something better! Source:
    http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200807-201412

  2. Steve Cheatham says

    January 3, 2015 at 11:41 am

    It’s about time. I have almost forgiven them for MS-DOS and Win 3.1.


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