article_snippet: The move was rumoured in December but now Microsoft has said Microsoft will use a new name for Microsoft forthcoming browser, which is currently code named Project Spartan.
article_snippet: Microsoft is believed its web browser will look more like Google's Chrome browser and be faster than Internet Explorer.
article_snippet: Farewell familiar friend: Microsofthas confirmed that Internet Explorer Internet Explorer (logo pictured) and instead will use a new name for its forthcoming browser, which is currently code named Project Spartan .
article_snippet: Microsoft's marketing chief Chris Capossela said Microsoft is working on a new name for the browser, which should be in Windows 10.
article_snippet: Microsoft’ll continue to have Internet ExplorerInternet Explorer, but Microsoft’ll also have a new browser which is code named Project Spartan.
article_snippet: Microsoft have to name the thing,’ Microsoft's marketing chief Chris Capossela said at Microsoft Convergence.
article_snippet: a new browser which is code named Project Spartan will be the main way for Microsoft 10 users to access the internet, although Internet Explorer Internet Explorer will continue to exist, The Verge reported.
article_snippet: The browser, which does not yet have a name, is likely to be rolled out with Windows 10.
article_snippet: Capossela mentioned that putting ‘Microsoft’ in front of the secret name boosted the browser’s appeal to some Chrome users in the UK, suggesting Microsoft’s name could appear in Internet Explorer.
article_snippet: ZDNet first shared the rumour of a new browser in December. '
article_snippet: Microsoft is building a new browser, codenamed Spartan, which is not IE 12 - at least according to a couple of sources of mine,' Mary Jo Foley of  wrote.
article_snippet: Thomas Nigro, a Microsoft Student Partner lead and developer of the modern version of VLC - a media playing app - claimed on Twitter in December that he heard Microsoft was building a brand-new browser. '
article_snippet: However, if my sources are right, Spartan is not IE 12. '
article_snippet: Instead, Spartan is a new, light-weight browser Microsoft is building.' a new, light-weight browser Microsoft is building is believed Windows 10 will ship with both Spartan and IE 11 to ensure compatibility with all web sites.
highlights_snippet: Microsoft confirmed Microsoft web browser will have a new name - but Microsoft's secret .
  
highlights_snippet: Thought its web browser will look more like Chrome and be faster than IE .
  