Forget IE: Microsoft Spartan Browser Tipped for Windows 10 - SlashGear
Internet Explorer is hardly the most loved of browsers, and Microsoft is reportedly planning a drastic fix with a new browser codenamed Spartan tipped to launch alongside Windows 10. Intended to be more lightweight and flexible - borrowing a look and feel more akin to Google’s Chrome or Mozilla’s Firefox - than previous Microsoft web browsers, Spartan would stick with Microsoft’s existing engine technologies under the hood, but wrap them up in such a way that the company’s engineers hope users forget whatever bad experiences they may have had with legacy software such as IE6.
That also means there won’t be a switch to WebKit, which is the underlying rendering engine in Chrome and other browsers, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley says based on her sources.
Instead, Microsoft’s Chakra JavaScript engine and Trident rendering engine will continue to lurk under the hood, though that’s not necessarily a bad thing. A key part of Microsoft’s goal with Spartan is said to be changing the mindset about Internet Explorer being outdated.
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