
Will You Make Microsoft’s Spartan Your Default Web-browsing Warrior?
In addition to Microsoft’s upcoming new operating system, Windows 10, the software company has released that there is a new web browser in production. This new browser, code-named “Spartan,” is expected to have similar functionality to Mozilla’s Firefox and Google Chrome, and will be released alongside Windows 10.
In Microsoft’s golden days of yore, its current web browser, Internet Explorer, was an unstoppable juggernaut, holding over 90 percent of the browser market share at one time. Now, the age-old web browser has fallen from grace, and younger, more-robust have overtaken it in terms of overall usage. Here are some recent browser usage statistics provided by W3Schools from 2014:
- Google Chrome: 60.1 percent.
- Mozilla Firefox: 23.4 percent.
- Internet Explorer: 9.8 percent.
- Apple Safari: 3.7 percent.
- Opera: 1.6 percent.