ASSOCIATED PRESS: Microsoft has plans to offer an alternative to its browsing staple.
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Microsoft has plans to offer an alternative to its browsing staple.
Microsoft has built a new web browser designed for the modern web and mobile devices to go with its new Windows 10 operating system that’s coming later this year. Explorer will still be available, but Microsoft hinted this week that its new — and as-yet unnamed — browser will get top billing in the future.
“They want to be associated with something sexy and new,” said tech analyst Al Hilwa, who follows Microsoft and other software companies for International Data Corp. “Explorer has gotten kind of a bad reputation for not being as fast as the Chromes and Firefoxes of this world,” he said, referring to rival browsers from Google and Mozilla.
