Microsoft Phasing Out Internet Explorer, Company Executive Confirms

Microsoft had earlier announced that it was working on a brand new browser for Windows 10 which would be an Internet Explorer replacement. Now a company executive has confirmed that the two are indeed separate products and the Internet Explorer is on the way out.

 "We're now researching what the new brand, or the new name, for our browser should be in Windows 10," said Microsoft's marketing chief Chris Capossela. "We'll continue to have Internet Explorer, but we'll also have a new browser called Project Spartan, which is codenamed Project Spartan. We have to name the thing."

The Internet Explorer brand gained a poor reputation in the early and mid-2000s both for security and for standards compliance, noted TechSpot.

The new browser, codenamed Project Spartan, will have a different interface and will include few handy features such as an offline reading list and ability to annotate and clip web pieces of webpages for easy sharing. It will also bring Cortana support.