Meet David Catuhe, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, who speaks of the "Project Spartan" without jargon.
From Seattle, David Catuhe not be expressed with an American accent, but with tones of southern France.
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" They charged us IE6 , "he exclaims.
This is why it explains the need for Microsoft to stop the series of "Internet Explorer" as the name has a bad image that sticks to the skin. Although the Redmond company went out the best browser on the market, it would be immediately sealed by the shadow of his predecessor cursed IE6.
" We needed a new browser! "
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The solution, the " Project Spartan ", a browser whose development has recently leaked before formalization in the Windows 10 conference .
Why the name " Project Spartan "?
Let's start with the name, " Project Spartan ", under which we now know the next Microsoft browser: it has a double meaning. First, he was blown away by the hero of the famous iconic game Xbox: Halo . You should know that a life-size statue of the super-soldier throne in the Seattle office where the browser is in development. After Cortana, Spartan seemed to be a perfect code name. David Catuhe also tells me that a second reference crept. Hard not to think of the movie 300 and the famous " This is Sparta "
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"This was pretty much our mindset: a handful of men (300) to defend Greece against hordes of enemies."
In this analogy, of course replace " Greece "with" Microsoft "and" hordes of enemies "to" Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox & co. "
Note that "Spartan" is still not confirmed as final name of the browser. David Catuhe will say that it is not totally excluded, but they are loathe to announce a name (random example: Metro or Skydrive), only to discover that the marks were deposited and be forced to change.
The ambitions of Spartan
For David, the Objective 1 Spartan is clear: " to show that Microsoft takes the bull by the horns ".
" It was a browser at the height of today's web, " he says.
Indeed, he believes that the fight between Google, Mozilla and Microsoft was biased when it came to talking browser, for the simple reason that they did not follow the same rules. Internet Explorer has always followed the web standards set by the W3C strictly. Chrome and Firefox will allow many freedoms that they will finally agree to take with Spartan.
It goes out over the long development cycles to offer new updates every 4 to 6 weeks, just like Chrome or Firefox.
At this point in the conversation with David Catuhe, I mentioned the first benchmarks made with Spartan (even if it is obviously too early to consider this data as reliable or representative of the final product:
" Performance is already largely improved compared to Internet Explorer, but fall short of Chrome or Firefox. Is that the goal is to rise to the same level as ... "
He interrupts me to proclaim immediately:
"... outperform the competition. We already have features that others have not. "
At least the message is clear: Microsoft does not just want to be in par with the competition, the desire is truly to take over the leadership position they have recently lost.
What is Internet Explorer?
Definitely kill Internet Explorer is not the order of the day. Which prevented IE to be competitive, it was the need to keep one foot in the Internet, and another in the intranet to operate certain banking solutions in particular. Microsoft will therefore not be able to remove Internet Explorer to its historical users and to coexist with IE Spartan for the world of business.
No new will have to wait for it yet ... with interventions limited to the correction of possible vulnerabilities.
Windows 10 and Spartan for June
The final version of Windows 10 (the famous RTM Release to Manufacturing ) is scheduled for June By then, the Insiders (1.5M testers group) may have taken in hand Spartan in its entirety.
Indeed, Microsoft has built a large panel of beta testers to ensure to satisfy its final customers. This is a break with the previous development cycle where Microsoft applications collected upstream and discovered at the launch of the unpopularity of his choices. Today Insiders are presented with a message saying " you just use such a feature, do you loved? "
From Seattle, David Catuhe not be expressed with an American accent, but with tones of southern France.
See This : Want to try Windows 10 on your Mac?
" They charged us IE6 , "he exclaims.
This is why it explains the need for Microsoft to stop the series of "Internet Explorer" as the name has a bad image that sticks to the skin. Although the Redmond company went out the best browser on the market, it would be immediately sealed by the shadow of his predecessor cursed IE6.
" We needed a new browser! "
The solution, the " Project Spartan ", a browser whose development has recently leaked before formalization in the Windows 10 conference .
Why the name " Project Spartan "?
Let's start with the name, " Project Spartan ", under which we now know the next Microsoft browser: it has a double meaning. First, he was blown away by the hero of the famous iconic game Xbox: Halo . You should know that a life-size statue of the super-soldier throne in the Seattle office where the browser is in development. After Cortana, Spartan seemed to be a perfect code name. David Catuhe also tells me that a second reference crept. Hard not to think of the movie 300 and the famous " This is Sparta "
"This was pretty much our mindset: a handful of men (300) to defend Greece against hordes of enemies."
In this analogy, of course replace " Greece "with" Microsoft "and" hordes of enemies "to" Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox & co. "
Note that "Spartan" is still not confirmed as final name of the browser. David Catuhe will say that it is not totally excluded, but they are loathe to announce a name (random example: Metro or Skydrive), only to discover that the marks were deposited and be forced to change.
The ambitions of Spartan
For David, the Objective 1 Spartan is clear: " to show that Microsoft takes the bull by the horns ".
" It was a browser at the height of today's web, " he says.
Indeed, he believes that the fight between Google, Mozilla and Microsoft was biased when it came to talking browser, for the simple reason that they did not follow the same rules. Internet Explorer has always followed the web standards set by the W3C strictly. Chrome and Firefox will allow many freedoms that they will finally agree to take with Spartan.
It goes out over the long development cycles to offer new updates every 4 to 6 weeks, just like Chrome or Firefox.
At this point in the conversation with David Catuhe, I mentioned the first benchmarks made with Spartan (even if it is obviously too early to consider this data as reliable or representative of the final product:
" Performance is already largely improved compared to Internet Explorer, but fall short of Chrome or Firefox. Is that the goal is to rise to the same level as ... "
He interrupts me to proclaim immediately:
"... outperform the competition. We already have features that others have not. "
At least the message is clear: Microsoft does not just want to be in par with the competition, the desire is truly to take over the leadership position they have recently lost.
What is Internet Explorer?
Definitely kill Internet Explorer is not the order of the day. Which prevented IE to be competitive, it was the need to keep one foot in the Internet, and another in the intranet to operate certain banking solutions in particular. Microsoft will therefore not be able to remove Internet Explorer to its historical users and to coexist with IE Spartan for the world of business.
No new will have to wait for it yet ... with interventions limited to the correction of possible vulnerabilities.
Windows 10 and Spartan for June
The final version of Windows 10 (the famous RTM Release to Manufacturing ) is scheduled for June By then, the Insiders (1.5M testers group) may have taken in hand Spartan in its entirety.
Indeed, Microsoft has built a large panel of beta testers to ensure to satisfy its final customers. This is a break with the previous development cycle where Microsoft applications collected upstream and discovered at the launch of the unpopularity of his choices. Today Insiders are presented with a message saying " you just use such a feature, do you loved? "