Internet Explorer brand name disappearing

[Darren Dirt]

Apparently they are trying to get CHROME users to switch back to IE... by naming it something else -- ANYTHING OTHER THAN Internet Explorer!

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/17/8230631/microsoft-is-killing-off-the-internet-explorer-brand



^ I am curious if we will ever find out what 4 names are on that coded shortlist ^

[Thorin]

I am curious as to whether it's built on a brand new engine, or whether it's simply Internet Explorer with a search-replace of the name.

One of the reasons I switched to Chrome a few years ago was the lightning-fast-compared-to-the-competition javascript engine (it was called V8 at the time).

[Lazybones]

I am curious as to whether it's built on a brand new engine

That was previously answered, yes it is a new rendering engine
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7863331/microsoft-project-spartan-new-web-browser

[Darren Dirt]

The name change, I posted this before /. got a convo started! (!)

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/03/17/1849230/microsoft-is-killing-off-the-internet-explorer-brand