Microsoft Finally Ditches Internet Explorer

Spartan is the new IE.

Now here’s a shocker for you just before the year ends. According to ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft is working on a new, light weight web browser for Windows 10 and there won’t be Internet Explorer 12.

Instead, a browser codenamed “Spartan”, which feels and behaves more like Chrome and Firefox, will replace Internet Explorer (although Windows 10 will still ship with IE11 for compatibility reasons) and will be available for both desktop and mobile devices.

What about features or release date? Nothing else is known although you could speculate that Microsoft might reveal it on January 21, 2015.

Stay tuned.

[Via: ZDNet]