Microsoft Working On A New Browser For Win10?

Courtesy of Tom's Hardware site:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-internet-spartan-browser-software,28270.html

Similar comments from MJ Foley at ZDNet site:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-building-a-new-browser-as-part-of-its-windows-10-push/

 

Something most of us here will find interesting:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/8/7516489/windows-10-new-browser-spartan-features

 

Wow--Microsoft being innovative and showing what it can do with its platform!

 

Microsoft holds too many patents/proprietary stuffs on inking, and this feature would make other browsers like a joke.

But ultimately, I still want them to integrate a web browser and PDF reader right inside of OneNote.

 

Now it's also rumored that it'll seamlessly support Chrome extensions (which would be huge):

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-spartan-chrome-extensions-targeted-for-native-support

 

Any inkling as to if Spartan will be included in a Windows 10 preview update?

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I'm pretty disappointed in the UI for this on both phone and tablet.



http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/...and-the-windows-10-january-preview-build.aspx

Metro IE was far better. Address bar at the top is just bad design for phone and tablet. The address bar at the top and the buttons on the bottom on the phone wastes a lot of space.

It also looks like they haven't really solved the mislabeling problem on the phone version. They call them 'tabs' but it's really like you have a bunch of different windows open... the type of thing we moved away from when Firefox first brought tabbed browsing. Metro IE handles this better too.

 

Remember that this will be used by Desktop users with no touch interface as well. I guess only the tablet users will complain - more bad news for us

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