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Microsoft Is Killing Off the Internet Explorer Brand

Posted by Soulskill on from the unpoisoning-the-well dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Verge reports that Internet Explorer as we know it will be taking a back seat to Microsoft's new browser, Project Spartan, in Windows 10 and future projects. IE will still exist, and stick around for compatibility issues, but Project Spartan will be the default way users interact with the internet. Microsoft wants to distance itself with the negative connotations Internet Explorer has acquired through the years. They still haven't decided on an official name for Project Spartan, but it will probably have the company name in it.

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  1. That's impossible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The previous CEO of Microsoft assured European regulators that IE was so deeply embedded in Windows architecture that it could not be replaced.

  2. Re:Why does Microsoft even need a browser? by robinsonne · · Score: 3, Informative

    A very large part of Microsoft's business is the enterprise and business world. That's where it matters a lot more than what ordinary people are using to go to facebook and pintrest.

  3. Re:A turd by any other name by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 4, Informative

    What do you expect when they renamed Spyglass Mosaic to IE? :-)

    In typical MS fashion it didn't get good until 3 versions later, IE4, before getting proprietary vendor lockin with that piece of shit IE6.

    Their stupidity of not being able to down-grade IE or simultaneously install different versions so web developers could test ALL the various versions, forcing people to rely on hacks like SandBoxie, was absolutely retarded.

    IE was so bad at security that at one point that us geeks called it "Internet Exploder"

    Microsoft writing the browser from scratch, is too little, too late.

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...