The end is nigh. An era of Internet Explorer dominance and subsequent decline is coming to a close.
Windows 10 Build 10049 has just launched. The headline feature is the brand new Project Spartan browser: a browser designed for the modern, mobile web and easy cross platform use.
Antón Molleda, the program manager for Microsoft's new Edge browser (formerly known as Project Spartan), announced in a blog post yesterday that the Edge developer program site is now officially launched—and now includes test virtual machines for Windows 10 and Edge alongside VMs for every version of Internet Explorer back to IE 6 on Windows XP.
Microsoft Add a new feature to Edge (Microsoft still calls it Project Spartan in this build) is that if a webpage is playing audio, a notification can be seen in the tab; a feature that was added in the previous release also shows when a video is playing in a tab as well.
Maximum PC: Some changes are coming to the way Microsoft's Project Spartan and Internet Explorer browsers will handle the web once Windows 10 ships. As originally conceived, both browsers would use the new rendering engine built for Project Spartan, and both would be capable of switching back to the legacy Trident engine to load certain sites that use dated technologies, and also to ensure compatibility among specific enterprise sites. Not anymore.
