Cortana will be helpful and will still respect your privacy
Recently,
we came across reports suggesting Microsoft is working on a new browser
codenamed Spartan for its upcoming Windows 10 operating system. Now, sources
reveal that it will come with several new features that are seen in other
leading browsers today.
As
reported by TheVerge ,
one of the key features in Spartan would be the ability to annotate a web page
with a stylus and then send notes and annotations to others. This web note
service will come powered by the company’s OneDrive cloud storage. This means
that notes will be stored on a copy of the web page, which can then be accessed
by any other browser across multiple platforms, adds the report. This also
means that users can simply doodle on a web page and share it between groups.
The
report further points out that the Spartan browser will get Microsoft’s digital
assistant, Cortana . Microsoft may use Cortana to provide information on
flights, hotel bookings, package tracking, and other essential data using the
traditional address bar. One should be able to access Cortana search directly
from the new tab interface in Spartan.
It will
also come with other features like a new way to group tabs together that will
avoid the otherwise messy multiple browser tabs. Spartan will also let one
split up personal tabs from work ones. Future updates to Spartan may also bring
custom themes.
An earlier report revealed
that Spartan will be based on Microsoft’s Chakra JavaScript engine and its
Trident rendering engine, which means it isn’t switching over to WebKit.
Spartan
is reportedly designed to be a single browser that can be used across PCs,
tablets and phones. Microsoft will be making Spartan a Windows
Store app that will allow the company to quickly and easily update the browser
in future. The desktop version will incline more towards Chrome.
Microsoft
is likely to unveil Spartan on January 21 along with the next set of Windows 10
features. “But my sources also aren’t sure if Spartan will be functional enough
for inclusion in the Windows 10 January Technical Preview and mobile preview
builds that are expected to be available to testers in early 2015. It may not
show up in the test builds until some point later, they say,” the ZDnet report had earlier suggested.
Source : http://tech.firstpost.com/
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