Windows 10’s new browser will have the most advanced features ever

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Windows 10’s new browser will have the most advanced features ever

This is Spartan

bill

12:44 am on Jan 9, 2015 (gmt 0)

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/8/7516489/windows-10-new-browser-spartan-features [theverge.com]

Windows 10’s new browser will have the most advanced features ever

Chief among the plans for Spartan is new inking support that allows Windows 10 users to annotate a web page with a stylus and send the notes and annotations to a friend or colleague.

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A second major feature for Spartan will be the integration of Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant.

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Other features include a new way to group tabs together to declutter the occasionally messy interface of multiple browser tabs.

incrediBILL

12:57 am on Jan 9, 2015 (gmt 0)

Yet with all this, Firefox is the developer's browser of choice and since Firefox doesn't have those features they won't end up being mainstreamed unless they end up in a common library like jQuery.

FYI, the annotation, collaborations and all that noise has been done on multiple products since the early 90s and it just makes this updated browser the latest to attempt it. Not innovation, but replication. One of my ex bosses formed a company called Collabra that did most of this on email, then Lotus notes, etc. all derivative.

Sorry, it just hit my cynic button big time but I've seen all this stuff before and it's being recycled yet again.

I'd like to see some really new thinking along the lines of IBM's VERSE which had some cool stuff.

Maybe there's more to it than it appears, but I'm not jumping up and down and again, Firefox is the developer browser of choice, so unless MS makes MSIE a developer platform like Firefox, big whoop.

Selen

1:27 am on Jan 9, 2015 (gmt 0)

One of Microsoft's biggest mistakes - lack of a good brand manager (I'm available if they need me ;). They create different brands/names that confuse its users and dilute the brand/product. @hotmail.com, @outlook.com, @msn.com, @live.com are essentially the same product with different names.. seriously, why?

Regarding the new browser - I'd advise them: the name 'Spartan' is very good. Stick with it, drop 'Internet Explorer' completely and promote the 'Spartan' name ONLY across all devices.