Microsoft Just Killed Off Internet Explorer (Well, Sort of)

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Microsoft is giving the boot to Internet Explorer —the name, that is. The software giant said this week that there will be a Web browser baked into Windows 10 but it won’t be called IE.

Speaking at the Microsoft Convergence conference in Atlanta on Monday, executive Chris Capossela made it plain that the Internet Explorer brand, while not disappearing entirely, is getting pushed to the side.

As for what will take it’s place, Microsoft isn’t sure just yet.

“We’re now researching what the new brand, or the new name, for our browser should be in Windows 10. 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,” Capossela said, as reported by The Verge.

Since this is Microsoft, the disappearance of Internet Explorer could take quite a while. It’ll still be present in some versions of Windows 10 for legacy support, continuing to provide websites with custom ActiveX controls, for example. IE-specific technologies and features could also remain operative but hidden away in the new OS—which is expected to be released later this year—even as Project Spartan takes take over as the primary Windows 10 browser.

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