After nearly twenty years of service to netizens
across the world, Internet Explorer, the popular browser from Microsoft
Corporation is saying good bye to millions of users this year as MS is readying
its replacement with Windows 10, codenamed "Spartan".
The new browser will be unveiled on January 21, in
the company's hometown of Redmond, Washington, when Microsoft shows off Windows
10 for the first time.
Spartan is being built as a revamped, lightweight,
extension-enabled browser that happens to sport a more similar look and feel to
both Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
IE 11 might temporarily be available for backward
compatibility purposes in Windows 10, more than anything it sounds like Spartan
could end up being everything IE isn't -- or at least everything frustrated IE
users have grown to believe it isn't.
The question of rebranding or renaming Internet
Explorer arose back in August, when a group of engineers from Microsoft's IE
team decided to tackle a Reddit AMA ("Ask Me Anything") forum.
Analysts said Microsoft may not be able to do much
to stem the rise of Google or Apple in the mobile realm; you can bet it would
love to maintain its desktop dominance going forward with the help of Spartan.
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