Windows 10: First real image of Microsoft Spartan browser revealed

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Ha that image date is showing 7-31-2014 *Smile

 

Well I hope it works better than IE 11

 

Looks like Chrome to me

 

looks a bit too plain to me

Is that black taskbar with the grey icons shown in the screenshot new?, not seen that before

 

What is wrong with IE 11? Works fine for me.

 

Did you install 9901? Task bar is the same. Not sure why.

 

Makes me suspicious of a mock up, number 1 because of the date and number 2 because that's not what the 9901 taskbar looks like.

 

Did you install 9901? Task bar is the same. Not sure why. I am just on the regular download (9879?), not booted into my 10 since beginning of December, but I am sure the taskbar looks the same as it does in 8

 

What is wrong with IE 11? Works fine for me. I recently took a Python class from Coursera and I could not make use of IE11 because it didn't support the code testing features of the website. This is just one example and I think that there was one more class from Coursera that had the same issues.

 

I don't know......,
... the generic icons???
... that same July 31, 2014 date???
I'm skeptical!

 

I agree, it's way too soon to know what Spartan will finally look like. I suspect it will be "spartan" but that's what FF and Chrome are and that's what MS wants to emulate with the new browser.

I hope it comes out with the next build so we can test it out.
Jeff

 

Hopefully!

Microsoft Compiles

 

Hi there

The browser should still say be able to load an application and present it to the video device rather than run it from WITHIN the browser. As far as the external user is concerned it would look exactly like the browser was running the way it works currently -- but it would be a lot more secure and only the application would need updating not the browser. It would also get rid of those zillions of plugins and addons.

I don't know too much about programming but to my Engineers way of thinking it would be a lot easier to call a separate module than have the whole lot kludged up as a total piece of spaghetti which could be (and are) riddled with security loopholes. Just think of the number of security patches that have been made to browsers running malicious code loaded by some dubious website.

Cheers
jimbo I am not to keen on your reasoning, on this, though I usually agree with you on most things.

First, I generally dislike most of the apps the companies come out with. Example, I much prefer Netflix browser method, over the Windows 8 Metro app. Instead of PLEX I use Mediabrowser 3, and their web client, I again, much prefer over their installed app.

If I had to use a separate app for, let's say, Youtube, facebook, Twitter, etc. that would drive me bonkers. So, I really much prefer the browser approach, for most common applications.

 

I have a smartTV but find it really dumb, I rarely use it as one ,Netflix now and then, anyway I have more than one tv ,but only one smart one ,so on the other tv I have a android box [cost me 100.00$ cdn on ebay],it turns the tv into a smart tv all kinds of apps ,and I use it for Netflix and an app called Showbox,similar app to Netflix only free. ,
Its worth the money so one doesn't have to use a browser for netflix