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#168549 18-Mar-2015 09:50

Microsoft is killing off Internet Explorer so i read.

They are replacing it with something else. Codenamed Project Spartan ...

I smell a reincarnation repackaged ... ?

[edit: title edited as it looks like it might survive this]

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#1261438 18-Mar-2015 09:59

Hmm I guess they want to be the dominant browser again. Well, IE has come leaps and bounds, so maybe a rebadge is the answer after all, ditching the legacy.

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#1261441 18-Mar-2015 10:01

The IE UI and engine will still exist in Windows 10

And "Project Spartan" is there too, just a code name. Either can be used and swapped out on the fly, control with group policy by site/url/wildcard etc

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#1261457 18-Mar-2015 10:06

I really hope they improve their developer tools. For a company that makes the best IDE hands down they make about the worst developer tools of the browsers. Chrome really shines in this area.

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#1261469 18-Mar-2015 10:09

I am looking forward to it, the integration of Cortana looks great

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#1261509 18-Mar-2015 11:12

nathan: The IE UI and engine will still exist in Windows 10

And "Project Spartan" is there too, just a code name. Either can be used and swapped out on the fly, control with group policy by site/url/wildcard etc

IIRC there was a BUILD 2014 video a while ago (I'd need go searching for it) about Internet Explorer in the enterprise and being able to enable legacy features on a per-domain basis/policies/etc. It'll be interesting to see how things develop but even now I'm using Internet Explorer on my laptop primarily because it is the one that is better when it comes to battery life, fast, standards compliant, doesn't hog a mountain of memory etc.

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#1261511 18-Mar-2015 11:16

Enterprise Mode IE its called, a compatibility mode that runs on Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 Update and Windows 7 devices

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn640687.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/04/02/stay-up-to-date-with-enterprise-mode-for-internet-explorer-11.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/11/11/announcing-improvements-to-the-enterprise-mode-site-list.aspx

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#1261578 18-Mar-2015 12:28

nathan: The IE UI and engine will still exist in Windows 10

Just expanding on this, many articles seem to be claiming that IE is being "killed off" in the headlines but don't actually back that up. NZ Herald has gone as far as stating that "Microsoft is killing off Internet Explorer" in the first paragraph and then "We'll continue to have Internet Explorer" in the fourth!

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#1261785 18-Mar-2015 15:45

oh dear i'm so sorry for the misleading title!

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#1261795 18-Mar-2015 15:53

Foxnews also say IE being axed so your title is not misleading

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#1261797 18-Mar-2015 15:56

Well it's still misleading, just popularly misleading :)

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#1262012 18-Mar-2015 22:16

MS will always have a browser of some sorts, whether it replaces explorer as the shell, metro style or otherwise.

Yes it maybe re-branded/re-named to something else, but no way they would drop a browser or something capable of loading http/https.

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#1262017 18-Mar-2015 22:43

I thought Spartan was quite a bit different from IE. Anyone used it?

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#1262068 19-Mar-2015 00:16

RIP is not the right phase. More like die in hell while being sodomized by satan

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#1262336 19-Mar-2015 12:27

No more lipstick on the old pig. We're getting a whole new pig.

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#1262363 19-Mar-2015 12:50

mattwnz: I thought Spartan was quite a bit different from IE. Anyone used it?

I don't think it's available to the unwashed masses (or even Devs) yet?

I do seem to recall reading though that IE11 on windows 10 preview uses the new rendering engine that spartan will use and falls back to the normal one as needed, or something like that.

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