Microsoft's long-awaited new browser "Project Spartan", introduced in Windows 10, is finally here for you to try. Project Spartan will be available across the Windows 10 device family. It is fast, compatible and build for the modern web. Project Spartan is designed to work the way you do, with features enabling you to do cool things like write or type on a webpage. It’s a browser that is made for easy sharing, reading, discovery and getting things done online.
Their brief announcement is here:
"It’s been really gratifying to see so much interest and excitement for our new browser. Today, we’re excited to announce that Project Spartan is available for the first time for Windows Insiders to try out as part of the latest Windows 10 Technical Preview build for PCs."
What to Expect
In this preview, you will see a bold new design for Project Spartan – one that is streamlined and puts the focus on the page, not the browser. This is part of their vision for a browser that doesn’t visually interfere with your life on the Web, but supports it.
It’s important to note more features and many improvements coming to Project Spartan before it broadly available. This preview is NOT a polished, ready-for-everyone release. For Windows Insiders, only a short time after they made it available for use internally at Microsoft.
Why "Project Spartan"
'Web is evolving, and our needs are evolving.' This leads them to step forward into a new era of browsing at Microsoft. You'll see some of the new features which force you to use Spartan:
- First, be an amazing browser – Browsers have been part of our computing experience long enough that core ideas about what a browser does and doesn’t do are fairly well-defined. Project Spartan has to deliver on what you expect from a browser – fast, more secure, reliable, power efficient – in the ways that you expect it (tabs, address bar, and so on).
- Be bold and forward-looking – Recently talked about how we reexamined our assumptions about compatibility and interoperability, and how we made the decision to build a new rendering engine designed for the modern Web. You will see this tenet come to life in many ways in Project Spartan.
- Ship fast, try new things, learn and always get better – Along with the rest of Windows 10, Project Spartan will be regularly updated, and the team is engaging with customers and partners closely to tune and update plans.
Source: Introducing Project Spartan
