Despite what you may have heard, Internet Explorer is not dead
You shouldn't believe everything you read online -- no, really, you shouldn't. Just the other day we heard from John Gruber who made the baseless suggestion that Apple invented USB-C (hint: it didn't). Now it's the turn of Tom Warren from the Verge. Yesterday he wrote an article with the headline "Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand". Gosh!
He goes on to talk about Project Spartan (the new default web browser in Windows 10 that we learned about weeks ago) but also immediately contradicts himself in a sub-heading: "IE will live on...". Hang on... I thought it was being killed off? There then followed confusion, back-pedalling, and playing with semantics from Warren that did nothing to clarify the matter and served to rile many on Twitter.
He starts off the article by quoting Microsoft's Chris Capossela who spoke at Convergence saying: "We're now researching what the new brand, or the new name, for our browser should be in Windows 10". This is nothing new so far. Two months ago we knew that Microsoft had a new browser on the cards for Windows 10 -- it doesn’t have a name as yet, so it's referred to as Project Spartan. Oh... Capossela was just about to tell you that: "We’ll continue to have Internet Explorer, but we’ll also have a new browser called Project Spartan, which is codenamed Project Spartan."
