Microsoft announces Project Spartan, its new web browser for Windows 10

Re:Microsoft announces Project Spartan, its new web browser ... by wanda on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @02:48PM (#8925194)

    Naturally, Cortana will be integrated into Project Spartan
    It'll pop up on relevant pages where Cortana can be useful

Another Internet Explorer I won't be using. Block pop-ups only to have one natively installed.

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Re:Microsoft announces Project Spartan, its new web browser ... by sibbl on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @02:57PM (#8925267)

I guess there will be an option for that. Almost everything of the Win 10 stuff that MS showed off today was optional.

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Re:Microsoft announces Project Spartan, its new web browser ... by bhhaskin on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @02:50PM (#8925216)

It reminds me of clippy...

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Re:Microsoft announces Project Spartan, its new web browser ... by Someone1234 on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @03:30PM (#8925528)

I was hoping they'd reference clipping in the presentation today. After they talked about "Cortana" appearing randomly on your desktop and in IE, all I could think of was "it looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like help? Get help typing the letter. Just type the letter without help." every... single... time...

I really hope this isn't another Clippy. If "Cortana" gets annoying I'm totally figuring out how to add the Clippy graphic to the UI and rename her "Clippy" (I bet you can personalise the name). Which, after thinking about it, I might try to do anyway just because it would be amusing...

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Re:Microsoft announces Project Spartan, its new web browser ... by marpstar on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @02:59PM (#8925285)

Exactly what I thought. I know that virtual assistance is hot right now, but this seems like a bit much.

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Re:Microsoft announces Project Spartan, its new web browser ... by giancarlostoro on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @03:06PM (#8925350)

I think it would be great for anyone who is visually impaired to have such functionality enabled by default. I imagine it's configurable, usually everything in Windows is, even if you have to hack through the system registry to configure it.

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Re:Microsoft announces Project Spartan, its new web browser ... by pdabbadabba on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @07:06PM (#8926665)

Well, in fairness, they said Cortana would only pop up on "pages where Cortana can be useful." Perhaps this means Cortana will be configured to never pop up.

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