IE has a bad rap due to its history. IE 11 isn't too bad. But over time, Microsoft will spend fewer resources on IE and more on Spartan. Spartan is an attempt to fix the perception of IE. But, Spartan is already getting hammered because it doesn't use webkit. IMO, that's a good thing. While Spartan won't support ActiveX, apparently it will support plugins.

You shouldn't be surprised that Microsoft is doing this. Satya Nadella has changed a lot of things. Releasing Office for iPad and Android. Open sourcing all of ASP.Net, Entitty Framework, and the .Net core. No charge for Windows on small screen devices. And just yesterday, the announcement that Windows 10 will be free for Raspberry Pi 2.


>Thanks, never heard of it so I searched for it. As a reference, I paste this link:
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_(browser)
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>Are you saying this because it says that Spartan will not support legacy technologies such as ActiveX and Browser Helper Objects?
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>Also, I am surprise to see that the browser will be embedded in Windows. A few years ago, something forbidden Microsoft to do that. Have new policies been approved so this will now be accepted?