I don't know why comments here think it is Metro IE repackaged. It doesn't look anything like it (it looks more like Chrome than Metro IE), doesn't have the same rendering engine, supports crazy amount of new functionality:<p>1. Google Now styled contextual cards appear as soon as you start typing in address bar to search.<p>2. It does have support for Hubs, probably the best feature of Windows 8.<p>3. Annotations, so many ways of annotations. Not only it is natural, there is actually no easy way to annotate the web in any browser today.<p>4. Reading lists - not new, but new in MS realm.<p>5. Lastly, the hidden weapon - Cortana. It is integrated every-freakin-where in the browser. It is like Siri had sex with Google Now.
I love how advertising shows people drawing annotations. It always looks so pointless.<p>Why did they circle that boat? Who is going to see it? What is the circled date on the other example? Did it get added to a calendar, or did it just go nowhere?<p>Can't they at least show cool young people working in a beach shop circling pictures of surfboards for no reason, like actual stylus users?<p>Unrelated to making fun of advertising... What happens to these examples when the site gets updated? Does it store a local copy? What if you want to update it later, but your local copy is now out of date?<p>I did just download Windows 10 to try in a VM, so I guess I'll find out!
Alternative link:<a href="http://www.browserfordong.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.browserfordong.com/</a><p>Oddly enough, running a whois on the above returns a different company/person then microsoft. I suppose Microsoft paid them to forward this, or they're much nicer people then I am... Missed opportunity for a prank.
ICQ had a feature for writing on websites, and even chatting with others visiting the same webpage. That was around 1998. It didn't work out, despite the penetration of ICQ at the time.
Anyone else get the feeling that .net is being groomed to be the "runtime" of the internet (I'll stop short of calling it "OS" as that would seem presumptuous :-)? To the extent where you could run any .net supported language on any OS as well as your browser (C#/F#/VB/Managed C++/etc). Granted the browser version would need to be well sand-boxed but penetrating the Javascript market would be huge. I'm predicting Edge will eventually explore this path.
I'm still hoping that they'll release this for Mac OS (more competition for cross platform browsers would be a good thing!)<p>But so far it doesn't seem like that's on the table...
Question, am I the only one that right now see an abnormal usage of ram by spartan(edge) compared even to chrome? I mean for the same exact page spartan requires about +120% more ram than chrome, and chrome is not really a memory-light browser.
Anyone knows how this relates to "Spartan?" I have Windows 10 preview installed, subscribed to "fast" (nighties) and Spartan looks like Edge.
Does it support managing dozens (up to 100) tabs like Firefox does with its Tab Groups feature? I'd find it very hard to use a browser that doesn't have a way to deal with tab explosion. Both Chrome and IE are virtually unusable with lots of tabs opened.
Hm, nice hype. But what about standards support? For instance, IE since IE10 has been missing some parts of the IndexedDB API. Last I heard, they weren't planning to fix it any time soon <a href="https://twitter.com/IEDevChat/status/533338659555008512" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/IEDevChat/status/533338659555008512</a><p>This is stuff that a single engineer could easily implement in a couple weeks. Firefox and Chrome have open source implementations and open source unit tests (the W3C has open unit tests too), which makes things even easier. Guess it's too much to ask of a company with the meager resources of MS, though...