The buzz in browsers today is coming from the direction of Microsoft. I know right! The PC giant is apparently grinding away on a new web browser… not a new version of Internet Explorer, a new browser entirely.
Codenamed Spartan, this could move the organisation far from Internet Explorer officially upon the dispatch of Windows 10.
The new programming which is rumoured to “be more like Chrome and Firefox” (according to the original ZD leak) will keep on using the Chakra Javascript engine and Trident rendering engine, so Redmond isn’t dropping its tools for Webkit. Webkit is the engine that is utilised by Apple’s Safari browser. Different contenders like Google have left the Webkit basis and made custom variations to serve their own advancement needs.
Don’t hope to see Internet Explorer vanish however, for “retro compatibility” (aka, your employers intranet page) IE 11 will in some form come packaged with Windows 10, so Microsoft will indeed be dispatching two programs with its next enormous working framework. We should expect to hear something more official on January 21st; that is the point at which we hope to hear all the more about the OS’s new features made for consumers and also Microsoft’s arrangements for Windows 10 on tablets and phones.