Internet Explorer, Microsoft's venerable but often despised web browser, may be on its way out.
That's according to Microsoft Student Partner lead Thomas Nigro, who mentioned on Twitter that Windows 10 would feature a new browser that would not carry the Internet Explorer name.
Ok so Microsoft is about to launch a new browser that's not Internet Explorer and will be the default browser in Windows 10. Wow.
— Thomas Nigro (@ThomasNigro) December 18, 2014
Importantly, Nigro notes that the new browser would be the default. Longtime Microsoft observer Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet expanded on the tweet, citing unnamed sources who said Internet Explorer 11, the default browser in Windows 8.1, would still be present for backward compatibility. Read more...
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