Come to think of it, “Spartan” is already a pretty cool name for a browser. Now it seems that Microsoft has crossed the point where it’s ready to chuck all of Internet Explorer’s branding-and baggage. “Plenty of ideas get kicked around about how we can separate ourselves from negative perceptions that no longer reflect our product today.” “It’s been suggested internally I remember a particularly long email thread where numerous people were passionately debating it,” IE developer Jonathan Sampson wrote in a Reddit AMA with the browser’s core team in August 2014. Over the past year, that decline drove Microsoft employees to publicly declare that a re-branding and name change was under serious consideration. Much of the market has been swallowed up by Google Chrome, which now occupies 48.7 percent of the market. Internet Explorer’s market-share has crumbled over the years, from 62.52 percent in March 2009 to a little under 19 percent today, according to browser-tracking Website StatCounter.
#INTERNET EXPLORER DEAD WINDOWS 10#
Microsoft has yet to give a formal name to the new browser, which will appear with Windows 10 and (per the screen-shot above) boast a stripped-down aesthetic in line with many rival browsers.Īt this point, however, most any name might do.
Project Spartan is expected to be included in a preview build of Windows 10 in the near future for users to take for a test drive.Internet Explorer, the browser that many a techie loved to hate for nearly two decades, is about to experience the most existential 404 of all.Īccording to The Verge, Microsoft marketing executive Chris Capossela told an audience at the Microsoft Convergence conference that the company’s next browser, codenamed Project Spartan, will represent a clean break with Internet Explorer. Renaming the browser and putting a fresh lick of paint on it, however, may just make customers give it a change all over again.
We have a computer running Windows 95, another one running Vista, three in the lobby ru. The warehouse I work at is dominated by super old technology. The new browser in Windows 10 isn’t all that different from Internet Explorer it still uses Microsoft’s Trident rendering engine that powered the old browser underneath. I’ve seen a tendency to ignore a large percentage of internet users: People working for companies, big or small. Internet Explorer is simply a baggage-laden brand that many associated with the early days of the internet (like having lots of spammy toolbars), which aren’t particularly fond memories. After June, it will no longer receive updates or support on certain versions of Windows 10. For customers who have business-critical, line-of-business (LOB) apps running on IE 11 today, IE 11 continues to be a supported browser. Microsoft is currently planning to end support for the Internet Explorer 11 desktop app on June 15, 2022. Microsoft made some token efforts last year to revive Internet Explorer’s brand, even trying to make it ‘cool’ again by appealing to users and developers to give it a chance again to little avail. Internet Explorer is a component of the Windows operating system and follows the Lifecycle Policy for the product on which it is installed. Here’s the thing: this brand sacrifice was long overdue. Microsoft is reportedly researching names for the new browser and found that simply putting “Microsoft” in front of the name made it appeal more than “ Internet Explorer.” It’s the kind of inclusion that says Microsoft’s keeping it around out of obligation to big business customers that rely on it right now, nothing more. It wouldn’t be surprising if it eventually is dropped altogether.
Internet Explorer will remain in some specific versions of Windows 10, but only for enterprise users for compatibility reasons. Project Spartan, Microsoft’s all-new web browser, will be front and center in Windows 10 and is planned to be the default way users interact with the Web. You know, I never imagined this would actually happen, but it’s finally a reality: Internet Explorer is dead.Īccording to a report from The Verge, Microsoft’s marketing head Chris Capossela said at an internal Microsoft event yesterday that “We’re now researching what the new brand, or the new name, for our browser should be in Windows 10.”
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