Mockingbird Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Microsoft is preparing to unveil a new browser in Windows 10, codenamed Spartan, and leaked images are providing an early glimpse at the Internet Explorer successor. Chinese site Cnbeta has published screenshots showing the simple interface of Spartan and the Cortana digital assistant integration. The Verge revealed yesterday that Spartan will include digital inking support to share and annotate web pages, and deep Cortana integration in the address bar and throughout the browser. Cnbeta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noir Angel Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 /puke The Evil Overlord 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockingbird Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 I don't know what MSFT is thinking! We need more transparency, not less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 But the dark theme looks nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Som Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I like it, reminds me of Opera funnily enough Jose_49 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockingbird Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 But the dark theme looks nice It looks like something from Android Honeycomb. francescob 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAZMINATOR Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 But the dark theme looks nice Similar to mine remixedcat 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Sexy! I like it! Metro 2.0 FTW! Jarrichvdv 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margrave Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Like the looks of it... Jarrichvdv 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosense Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 looks okay to me, 2 more weeks and the haters will come in full force! Jarrichvdv 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Similar to mine Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandosis Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I am thinking this is fake based off of what Brad Sams said near the bottom in the following article https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-spartan-a-few-questions-answered The Reddit image is also missing a few things that are not shown in the images that I posted that were hidden intentionally. Also, the user is not showing the taskbar too, Spartan has a unique icon which they would have posted to further their claims but without seeing it, this leads me to believe that this is a mockup rather than a real image. The spartan browser is using the Internet Explorer icon which could be a development placeholder but from what was said in the article I am doubting it. Not to mention the the icons for the other programs on the task bar don't really seem like something Microsoft would design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gate1975mlm Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I don't know what MSFT is thinking! We need more transparency, not less. I could not disagree with you more I love that Microsoft is creating these sharp looking dark themes they look very professional in my opinion. And I may be the only one that feels this way but I never liked using transparency on my themes and hated that Microsoft removed the opton to disable it in Windows 8 and 8.1. So I am so happy to see Microsoft finally realize that not everyone likes using transparency Windows 10 is looking better every day! dr_crabman and Jarrichvdv 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorganX Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 It all seems OK. Would love for reading pane to be integrated into it though the share icon on the toolbar may effectively accomplish that. As long as it performs well ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenwizard88 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I'm excited for Jan 21. Very excited. Jarrichvdv 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaP Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Not bad. At least there gonna be some consistency between desktop and rt this time. Windows 8 was a total mess to me. I welcome the ability to run rt apps in a window and to have rt apps usable and useful in desktop mode. RT apps in windows 8 are totally useless if you are not in tablet mode. Jarrichvdv 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floopydoodle Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I like the actual UI chrome but the icons look too Android. If this is how Windows 10 will look, Metro has just lost it uniqueness. Also it will be a mess of outlined icons mixed with Metro 1.0 solid icons going forward. So they finally get rid of the Vista icons just to create another icon style that will conflict with other Microsoft products and services, not to mention third party apps that have adopted the solid Metro 1.0 icon style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosense Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 No build number and old date seems like it was an early mockup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I like the actual UI chrome but the icons look too Android. If this is how Windows 10 will look, Metro has just lost it uniqueness. Also it will be a mess of outlined icons mixed with Metro 1.0 solid icons going forward. So they finally get rid of the Vista icons just to create another icon style that will conflict with other Microsoft products and services, not to mention third party apps that have adopted the solid Metro 1.0 icon style. Well, you're never really going to have a solid look with icons. Many third party apps will never have that parity. Jarrichvdv 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinetheo Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Microsoft will offer both a light and a dark gui theme with different colors. http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/9/7520989/windows-10-screenshots-dark-theme-spartan-browser The new icons are clearly visible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandosis Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Already posted in the back page news section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisj1968 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I think MSFT is more concerned about asthetics than functionality. make it function as it should BEFORE you make it look nice. nothing worse than having software that doesn't work as it should and it looks nice. backwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted January 10, 2015 Veteran Share Posted January 10, 2015 Merged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zagadka Subscriber² Posted January 10, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted January 10, 2015 Well, Win8 functions pretty damn well, and most of the complaints about it are purely aesthetics and UI, so it isn't terribly surprising that they are working on that - in addition to all of the under the hood things they are confirmed to be doing with Win10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Active. Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Not sure why OS X needed a dark theme. Not sure why Windows X 10 does, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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