Goodbye Internet Explorer? New Microsoft web browser Project Spartan confirmed

They should drop the browser and put their energy back into developing a kick-ass o/s.
 
What is it going to do that Chrome/Firefox hasn't been doing for the last 10 years?
 
I guess I should not be surprised that none of the three "significant features" is security. I expect that people will soon realise that the new Spartan browser is really IE 11.5.
 
MS doing some interesting stuff and doing it right.
 
Fudzy said:
What is it going to do that Chrome/Firefox hasn't been doing for the last 10 years?
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Well because it is new it is going to take some time to become as cluttered as Firefox and Chrome has.

Chrome even has a friggin notification centre in the system tray now. Why the hell would I want notifications from my friggin browser and why wasn't I given a choice in the matter?!

And then of course the fact that they moved the brilliant google talk to friggin browser as well. I had to format my PC this week and see now that Gtalk isn't available for download anymore, so I jumped ship to Skype.

Much to my dismay I'm now looking for a replacement to Chrome and I'm hoping this is going to be it.
 
I seriously doubt this browser is new and more just the next iteration of Internet Explorer but for obvious reasons Microsoft has killed that brand.
 
Frikkenator said:
And then of course the fact that they moved the brilliant google talk to friggin browser as well. I had to format my PC this week and see now that Gtalk isn't available for download anymore, so I jumped ship to Skype.
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Pidgin solved my GTalk problems. Hangouts just doesn't work for me. I use FireFox atm (I or something broke chrome and chrome canary on my machine) and it is way better than the FireFox of the past.
 
I just hope for the sake of all web developers and end users that Microsoft decide to get any new browser features involving web code, ratified via W3C first.
 
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