For a while we've been hearing that Microsoft is working on Spartan, a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows 10 that will look and feel very similar to Firefox and Chrome. But today ZDNet released new information that suggests Microsoft is actually working on a brand new web browser software, and it's not Internet Explorer 12.
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Spartan is Microsoft's new web browser for Windows 10 – IGN News
According to the report, the Spartan browser will continue to use Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript engine and the company's Trident rendering engine, but will not adopt the widely used WebKit engine.
In September, we learned some details about the browser, including a new look similar to Chrome and Firefox and support for extensions. But what's even more interesting about Spartan is that it's not Internet Explorer 12, but a completely new, lightweight Internet software that Microsoft is developing.
According to a new report from Neowin, Microsoft will also introduce a new version of its rendering engine. With Spartan, there will now be two versions of Trident as the company will remove legacy support from the software. However, the new web browser will still offer backwards compatibility by calling an older version of the rendering engine (Trident) when the browser detects that the web page needs to be rendered in compatibility mode. If compatibility mode is not required, the new version of Trident will take over the rendering.
