Internet Explorer was never meant to be better than Netscape, just more accessible. And it never was anything but a last minute stuck together Microsoft Netscape killer. In the intervening years of no alternative to Internet Explorer Microsoft did about nothing to add to its capabilities because it had no need to. And then when Firefox and a slew of other browsers came along all they bothered to do with IE was merely cosmetic. whatever iteration IE will transmorph into, it willl surely be an improvement.
Oy that seals it I think I finally have to get a new computer.
...the new browser...
Headline seems quite misleading.
The brand is not the problem, the technology is.
I have learned that with Microsoft something new is not necessarily better. It only means that they can charge for the “new” item. Maybe eventually after many versions and revisions it might work but they always rush everything to market before it is ready and we as the consumer are stuck with their crappy revisions and updates. Whenever I get a revision or update from Microsoft I think IF IT AIN’T BROKE WHY THE HELL DO THEY HAVE TO FIX IT. Every time they come out with a new whatever it resets all of my settings and I spend a whole day customizing it.
one less crapwares...
As if FF or Chrome are some sort of prize?
Both are bloated, and will easily lead you to having to shut them down before they consume almost a gig of RAM and way too much CPU. Add the Flash plug-in too either, and they are worse.
I'm finding more and more reasons for not looking forward to Windows 10.
IE is the biggest POS browser ever... Evuh!
great! another new ‘upgrade’ that will not work as good and have less features, I bet
(there’s precedent)
but I thought it was part of the operating system!!
Spartan, eh? Stay tuned for the 300 humor.
As a web developer, I have to say that IE hasn’t been the dog that everybody thinks it is for a while... since IE 9 it’s light years better in terms of standards compliance and rarely do I have to do anything special to make things work with versions of IE after version 8. It’s got better support for the newest standards than than Firefox or Chrome in some respects, though worse in others. Most folks don’t realize that every browser has incomplete support for the standards and they all sometimes require workarounds and special little “hacks” if you’re going to do anything very complicated.
Despite the massive reams of BS written in the tech press about “Spartan”, my guess is that “Spartan” is a VERY SPARTAN browser aimed mainly at the nearly non-existent Windows Phone market.
Despite the billions of BS words written, no one really knows what “Spartan” really is or really can do, since it hasn’t yet shown up in one of the Technical Review pre-releases of Windows 10.