14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is said to be already working on a new browser to replace Internet Explorer and provide users with a more powerful default solution when installing Windows, and according to people close to the matter, this new project should see daylight with Windows 10, in the fall of 2015.
Details are very scarce right now, but it's believed that this new browser is internally codenamed Spartan and has a new UI that brings it closer to Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
While Microsoft plans to release it with Windows 10, these statistics show that Internet Explorer keeps losing market share points, so bringing it to the market sooner rather than later would be a really good idea.
The figures you see in this picture are provided by StatCounter for the month of January 2015 and indicate that Google Chrome keeps leading the market with a share of 51.54 percent. Internet Explorer is on the second place worldwide with 21.31 percent, while Firefox comes very close with 18.73 percent.
If you're asking the guys over at NetMarketShare, Internet Explorer is still the leading browser worldwide, so it's hard to determine which one provides more accurate figures, but in both cases, Microsoft's in-house browser might be losing ground this month in anticipation of the new release.
If it's indeed part of Windows 10, Spartan could see daylight later this year, so we might not be too far away from the day when it finally goes live. In the meantime, let's just hope that Microsoft will spill the beans on its new browser on Wednesday.