Project Spartan will be the browser of Windows 10 and will have a whole new name.
Joe Belfiore, manager of Microsoft unveils Windows 10 (Click image to view larger)
It’s the end of an era and, for many, is a liberation: Microsoft has decided to put an end to the history of the Internet Explorer browser as the company’s flagship.
The announcement, as reported by The Verge, was made at the Microsoft Convergence conference, held yesterday in Atlanta, Chris Capossela, who stated bluntly that the Redmond company intends to get rid of the word Internet Explorer and all the negative memories it evokes.
In Windows 10, the place of Internet Explorer will be taken to a new browser, currently known only by the code name of Project Spartan.
For now we select two months of its initial presentation, Spartan has its own rendering engine – EdgeHTML – derived from Trident, the Internet Explorer engine, and the goal of offering a whole new experience to ‘ user, possibly making them forget the peculiarities of his predecessor in dealing with web standards (although great strides have been made with the latest versions).
Spartan, though, still has no official name. Microsoft has therefore decided to emphasize the novelty of this browser avoiding reuse the name Internet Explorer and is currently looking for a new name.
At the moment, therefore, it is known as Spartan not will be called but that in all probability will have the word Microsoft in the name, exactly as the name Full Chrome is, in fact, Google Chrome .
The market research conducted by the company in Redmond have indeed shown how to give users more confidence in a new browser if that Microsoft in the name.
But beyond the issues of branding , the retirement of Internet Explorer raises some questions are not minor, especially in those companies that still use an intranet that makes extensive use of specific technologies Internet Explorer as custom ActiveX controls, toolbar, or browser helper object.
Microsoft is aware of the problem and therefore, even considering the Spartan browser that users normally use under Windows 10, decided that in some form Internet Explorer will continue to work even in retirement, in order to ensure the backward compatibility.
“We will continue to have Internet Explorer ‘ has revealed Capossela, reassuring the audience, but limiting its existence to some versions of Windows 10 (probably the equivalent of the Enterprise version of Windows 8).
On the other hand Jacob Rossi, manager of Microsoft, in an interview some time ago had already declared: “There are several companies that have created tools built on the basis of old extensibility model of Internet Explorer. Then Internet Explorer will be available in Windows 10 for some corporate web applications that require a high degree of backward compatibility ‘.
To avoid too many headaches for web developers, Rossi had also added: “This version of Internet Explorer will use the same approach to the two motors used by Spartan, with EdgeHTML as default engine for web, which means that developers will not have to deal with Internet Explorer and Spartan differently and that our roadmap of standards will be the same, “.
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