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| Microsoft presenting Project Spartan |
Well it’s being phased out to make way for the highly rated Spartan browser.
This doesn't come as a surprise, as users have over time abandoned IE
for Safari, Google Chrome, and other more efficient browser.
Project Spartan has been in the news for a while now and many reports about it have surfaced over the last few months. Finally, Microsoft unveiled its Project Spartan at the event yesterday, which is indeed their new browser and comes with Cortana-built in with its contextual searching chops. For instance, if a user is searching for a restaurant, Cortana will throw in a map, menu and contact details of the place.
Spartan is reportedly designed to be a single browser that can be used across PCs, tablets and phones. Microsoft has added in some some powerful unique features for its users. A report by PC World explained that the event included a note-taking mode which allows users to annotate a webpage and then share their marked-up, commented-on version with others using Windows 10’s native Share feature.
This means that notes will be stored on a copy of the web page, which can then be accessed by any other browser across multiple platforms. This also means that users can simply doodle on a web page and share it between groups.
Another feature of Project Spartan includes a special reading list and Reading Mode. It is a bit similar to Apple’s Reading List and apps such as Pocket. Reading lists is a distraction-free reading mode and a built-in PDF viewer. The report by PC World also added that the Reading Mode will remove all the ads and sidebar crud out of webpages, formatting articles so that they appear similar to a book. Unlike the Reading List app in Windows 8, the one in Windows 10 will let you save content to read offline.
Cortana will also show additional information about the sites you’re browsing. It also can easily pull up things like flight reservations if you type ‘Air India’ in the address bar.
A report by MSDN Blogs pointed out that Spartan will provide compatibility with the millions of existing enterprise web sites designed for Internet Explorer. Spartan will load the IE11 engine for legacy enterprise web sites when needed, while using the new rendering engine for modern web sites.
In the next few weeks, Microsoft will roll out a new preview build to Windows 10 Insiders. This build will not have Project Spartan, but but will yet have many updates to the new web rendering engine that Spartan will use.
The design for Project Spartan aims for simplicity. There aren’t any details which confirm whether the browser will support extensions as of now. Spartan will work across the entire Windows 10 device family which range from keyboard and mouse on the Windows 10 desktop to touch, gestures, voice, controllers and sensors.
Spartan will replace Internet Explorer on Microsoft’s Windows 10. Experts behind it have promised a range of new features including sync between phones and PCs.
Project Spartan to co-exist with Internet Explorer: A look at the highlights
Microsoft is moving on from Internet Explorer to another web browser. At the Windows 10 event, Microsoft officially announced that Project Spartan will now be the new web browser for Windows 10.Project Spartan has been in the news for a while now and many reports about it have surfaced over the last few months. Finally, Microsoft unveiled its Project Spartan at the event yesterday, which is indeed their new browser and comes with Cortana-built in with its contextual searching chops. For instance, if a user is searching for a restaurant, Cortana will throw in a map, menu and contact details of the place.
Spartan is reportedly designed to be a single browser that can be used across PCs, tablets and phones. Microsoft has added in some some powerful unique features for its users. A report by PC World explained that the event included a note-taking mode which allows users to annotate a webpage and then share their marked-up, commented-on version with others using Windows 10’s native Share feature.
This means that notes will be stored on a copy of the web page, which can then be accessed by any other browser across multiple platforms. This also means that users can simply doodle on a web page and share it between groups.
Another feature of Project Spartan includes a special reading list and Reading Mode. It is a bit similar to Apple’s Reading List and apps such as Pocket. Reading lists is a distraction-free reading mode and a built-in PDF viewer. The report by PC World also added that the Reading Mode will remove all the ads and sidebar crud out of webpages, formatting articles so that they appear similar to a book. Unlike the Reading List app in Windows 8, the one in Windows 10 will let you save content to read offline.
Cortana will also show additional information about the sites you’re browsing. It also can easily pull up things like flight reservations if you type ‘Air India’ in the address bar.
A report by MSDN Blogs pointed out that Spartan will provide compatibility with the millions of existing enterprise web sites designed for Internet Explorer. Spartan will load the IE11 engine for legacy enterprise web sites when needed, while using the new rendering engine for modern web sites.
Image: MSDN Blogs
The report also shared that Internet Explorer will use the same dual
rendering engines as Spartan, ensuring that web developers can
consistently target the latest web standards.In the next few weeks, Microsoft will roll out a new preview build to Windows 10 Insiders. This build will not have Project Spartan, but but will yet have many updates to the new web rendering engine that Spartan will use.
The design for Project Spartan aims for simplicity. There aren’t any details which confirm whether the browser will support extensions as of now. Spartan will work across the entire Windows 10 device family which range from keyboard and mouse on the Windows 10 desktop to touch, gestures, voice, controllers and sensors.
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