Wow! After 20 years, we may be saying goodbye to the venerable, yet often hated, Internet Explorer. With the arrival of Windows 10 in 2015, Microsoft is said to be building a new lightweight browser code named Spartan that will be the default browser for Windows 10. Spartan will look and feel more like Chrome or Firefox. IE 11, the current Windows 8.1 browser, will be included with Windows 10 but only for backward compatibility.
Spartan will probably not be the final name for Microsoft’s browser
Spartan is still going to use Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript engine and Microsoft's Trident rendering engine (not WebKit). If that’s so, then it’s unlikely the new Spartan browser, just like current IE, will be available to run on iOS or Android devices. Microsoft has repeatedly said it has no plans to port IE to any non-Windows operating systems. But, IE isn’t Spartan is it? More fun and games to come and we may find out more on January 21st when Microsoft is scheduled to unveil more on Windows 10 from Redmond, WA.
When Spartan debuts, support for these 2 IE versions will go bye-bye!
Internet Explorer 11 is an excellent browser. It’s fast, reliable and dependable but it suffers a lot from its name. Microsoft was slow to respond to faster, modern browsers like Firefox and Chrome. It was Google’s Chrome that really stole the thunder from IE with its blazing speed, auto-updates and clean, minimal look. Some analysts think that Microsoft simply needed to change the name of IE just to get rid of the bad vibes folks had about it. Maybe…but Spartan will be completely new too!
Windows 10 – we’ll see this in the fall of 2015
What does this mean for us bloggers? Well, if you do use Internet Explorer you’ll need to update at some point in the future to a version later than IE 8 as when Windows 10 hits the shelves late in 2015, it won’t be long after that until Microsoft drops support for those older versions.
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