Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand

Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @04:45PM (#9221318)

Well, they can't, because enterprise/legacy sites. They need to keep it kicking around.

But the non-awful modern browser, that won't be called IE.

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by O____________O on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @07:17PM (#9222315)

Is there some proof of this outside of this USA Today article?

I came here with the exact same concern as the GP comment.

“We’ll continue to have Internet Explorer, but we’ll also have a new browser called Project Spartan..."

It just reeks of marketing double-speak that gets engineers excited, only to find out that they're stuck maintaining code for N + 1 browsers now.

Incidentally, Microsoft rebranding exercises infuriate me. Arguably, Spartan is a "new" product, but by that measure any product rewrite should get a completely new, unrelated name rather than a version number. I remember COM + DispInterfaces ==> ActiveX, Outlook Express ==> MSN Messenger, MSN ==> Bing. It's just irritating and confusing to both developers and consumers.

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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by gsnedders on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @07:51PM (#9222486)

AIUI, the version of Trident (i.e., mshtml.dll) shipping in Win10 is that of IE11. There shouldn't be any behavioural changes, and Trident should only be used in IE12 for intranet websites by default.

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