Microsoft plans to “retire” to Internet Explorer – Ambito.com

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    Wednesday March 18, 2015
    
         
    

In Windows 10

Microsoft will release its new Windows 10 OS next summer (boreal), according to the responsible manager Terry Myerson, on your blog without mentioning a specific date. And apparently renamed his legendary browser Internet Explorer.

According Myerson, the new version of Windows noted can be downloaded for free by users of Windows 7 and 8.1 for a year. Microsoft aims to create with its new operating system a unique platform for PCs, smartphones and tablets.

And confirmed to dpa Microsoft manager Oliver Gürtler, the browser of the new Windows 10 stop calling “Internet Explorer” . Microsoft is developing a new one under a project called “Project Spartan” . It is expected that the new browser offers new functions and thus is renamed.

Internet Explorer (IE) will continue yet integrated in some versions of Windows for enterprise customers. With its EI Microsoft achieved a market share of 80 percent, but stalled technically especially with version 6.

The Cortana digital assistant will be one of the “highlights” of the new system, according Gürtler, which noted that go beyond the simple operation via voice. As a system capable of learning by itself can do aid work and will be an essential component of the new Microsoft browser.

On the other hand, in the smartphone business, Microsfot announced a partnership with China’s Lenovo, during the WinHEC fair held in Shenzen, China. The manufacturer of Chinese PCs offer from summer (boreal) a smartphone with Microsfot Windows operating system, Myerson wrote, though it’s unclear if it will be the current Windows Phone or if it will incorporate the new Windows 10. At Mobile World Congress recently held in Barcelona Microsoft announced Windows Smartphones with a total of 35 manufacturers.

And is that so far in this sector Microsfoft was not too successful, to competition from companies like Google, the market leader with its Android system, followed by Apple’s iOS. Experts believe that with its new platform Microsoft achieved a market share of 5.6 percent through 2018.

from Shenzhen Myerson also announced that the company Xiaomi smartphones offer some of your users the ability to test your Windows 10. The firm, one of the largest ofertoras of smartphones in China, which is growing rapidly, so far has been based operating system Google Android.

But Google services like GMail are not available in China, has become a version without access to such services

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