Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer, its long-time and once-dominant-web browser is to be phased out and replaced by a new browser. Explorer is nearly 20 years old and was born out of the sudden realization at Microsoft that it had almost “missed the Internet.” At the time, the computer revolution was about the PC, not the Internet. Then a 23-year-old wizard named Marc Andreessen created Netscape, the first Internet browser. It’s popularity is said to have stunned Microsoft. Netscape was set to conquer the world until Microsoft made use of Explorer mandatory by embedding it in Windows. Now Explorer is on its way out and Microsoft will try to regain browser preeminence with a new web interface under the working name Project Spartan.
