Member • Dec 29, 2014
Microsoft Working On A New Browser Which Is Not The Internet Explorer
Spartan will use Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript Engine (which was introduced in IE 9) and will also use the Trident rendering engine (aka MSHTML). Also, Microsoft is developing 2 different versions of the Trident layout engine corroborating to the fact that there are two new browsers in the offing. The new browser will also support extensions, just like Chrome and Firefox.
Microsoft Windows 10 desktop version will ship both the browsers; IE 11 will be included for situations where backward-compatibility is desired. Spartan will be made available for Windows 10 mobile (and tablet) versions too. There is no news for Spartan to be made available for non-Windows operating systems. However, with Microsoft porting many of its applications to other platforms, such a possibility cannot be overruled in the future.
Source: Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push | ZDNET