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       Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10
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   DIR By: admin
       Date: December 29, 2014, 11:26 am
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       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.
       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.
       However, if my sources are right, Spartan is not IE 12. Instead,
       Spartan is a new, light-weight browser Microsoft is building.
       Windows 10 (at least the desktop version) will ship with both
       Spartan and IE 11, my sources say. IE 11 will be there for
       backward-compatibility's sake. Spartan will be available for
       both desktop and mobile (phone/tablet) versions of Windows 10,
       sources say.
       Spartan is just a codename at this point. My sources don't know
       what Microsoft plans to call this new browser when it debuts.
       The IE team hinted during a Reddit Ask Me Anything earlier this
       year that the team had contemplated changing the name of IE to
       try to get users to realize the much more standards-compliant IE
       of today is very different from older, proprietary versions of
       IE.
       Microsoft may show off Spartan on January 21 when the company
       reveals its next set of Windows 10 features. But my sources also
       aren't sure if Spartan will be functional enough for inclusion
       in the Windows 10 January Technical Preview and mobile preview
       builds that are expected to be available to testers in early
       2015. It may not show up in the test builds until some point
       later, they say.
       Will Microsoft end up porting the Spartan browser to Android,
       iOS and/or any other non-Windows operating systems? I'm not
       sure. The IE team said a few months back that Microsoft had no
       plans to port IE to any non-Windows operating systems. But
       Spartan isn't IE. And these days, Microsoft is porting much of
       its software and services to non-Windows variants. So I'd say
       there's a chance that this could happen somewhere down the line
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