The question on Windows 10 users’ minds will be-IE, IE, where fore art thou IE?
Replaced by the new browser, codename, “Project Spartan” and a deep seated memory for baby boomers and Gen. X, that’s where.
As of March 17th, Microsoft announced that they’ll be killing off Internet Explorer to make way for a new and improved web browser, “Project Spartan”.
Despite its evolution over 18 years, with 11 different editions, the latest of which being IE11, Internet Explorer failed to keep up with its competitors Firefox and Google Chrome.
IE, nevertheless, has transformed the way that we connect to the internet. Since 1995, Internet Explorer, in association with Windows, has paved the way for internet browsers as well as dominated the market. However, since the introduction of Mozilla Firefox by Netscape in 1998, IE’s browser use has been on a steady decline. The final blow to this historically significant browser came in 2008 with the introduction of Google’s Chrome. Since then, IE user browsing has fallen just below 10% of all browser use.
Many users, since the introduction of competitors Chrome and Firefox, have complained that IE is laggard. The version changes from IE8 to IE11 have done little to improve speed and quality of web browsing, many have claimed.
Fret not Windows users, Satya Nadella, the new CEO of Microsoft, has a plan to revamp the way we view Windows with a new web browser “Project Spartan”. Spartan will have a new look, available on all devices that run on Windows 10.
Microsoft’s OneDrive will be essential as a part of the new and improved note-taking mode on web pages. Users will be able to share their insights on web pages by saving their work and allowing others to add notes and comments to their own, saving them onto OneDrive for easy access to everyone involved in the editing process.
It will include other, more valuable sharing features and Microsoft’s Cortana virtual assistant software for easy to use yet detailed information on web searches. For instance, if one was to look up a Walmart nearby, Cortana would provide information on the directions, hours, and products available with one easy web search.
With all of its cool, new improvements, who wouldn’t want to use Spartan? Some businesses are hesitant. Businesses, however, that still want to use IE for software compatibility will be able to do so even after Spartan’s release with Windows 10.
The real conundrum is what are the geniuses at Microsoft planning on calling Project Spartan?
Chris Caposella, Microsoft’s Marketing Chief said, “we’re now researching what the new brand, or the new name, for our browser should be in Windows 10,” as quoted in The Verge. “We’ll continue to have Internet Explorer, but we’ll also have a new browser called Project Spartan which is codenamed Project Spartan. We have to name the thing.”
We like the name Spartan. It reminds us of the warriors who’d never give up. With the all the new dazzling improvements at Microsoft, Spartan is just what they need to coin themselves, once more, as the gods of web browsing.
Sound off in the comments below letting us know what you think the new browser should be called!
