代號斯巴達 微軟發佈新瀏覽器取代IE
Microsoft rolled out its new Project Spartan web browser for the first time publicly today, offering members of the Windows Insider Program early access to the product designed to revitalize the company’s position in the browser market.
今天，微軟爲Windows會員計劃的參與者們提供機會提前嘗試新瀏覽器Project Spartan。這款首次對外公開的產品承載了微軟在瀏覽器市場東山再起的希望。
Features of the new browser include support for annotating web pages. Users can either write or type notes on the page, which they can then share with other people. It’s an interesting move by the company to essentially take its collaboration features from Office and bring them to the web.
Spartan瀏覽器支持網頁註釋。用戶可以在頁面上手寫或輸入筆記，並和他人分享。微軟這一頗有意思的舉措從根本上將Office軟件中的協作功能帶到了web端。
In addition, Spartan users will be able to get help from Cortana, Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which also appears on the Windows 10 desktop. According to Microsoft, Cortana be waiting in the background until users want a piece of contextual information that the assistant can bring up. Since Cortana is powered in part by Bing, it’s no surprise that she has found a home in Microsoft’s web browser.
此外，Spartan用戶還能從微軟虛擬助手小娜那裏獲得幫助。小娜還將出現在Windows 10桌面上。微軟表示，在能爲用戶提供想要的相關信息前，小娜都會在後臺靜候。考慮到小娜基於必應搜索引擎，她出現在微軟的瀏覽器裏也就沒什麼可奇怪的了。
People who do a lot of reading on their computer may get some mileage out of Spartan’s Reading List feature, which is similar to systems like Instapaper and Pocket. The browser allows people to save web pages for later, and read them in a simplified view that blocks out distractions. It’s similar to a feature that Apple offers in Safari, with the same name.
經常用電腦閱讀的用戶能從Spartan的Reading List功能中獲益。該功能和Instapaper、Pocket類似，用戶不僅能夠保存頁面以供稍後閱讀，還能屏蔽各種雜亂信息。蘋果在Safari瀏覽器中也提供了相似功能，連名稱都一模一樣。
Spartan also features a new rendering engine that’s supposed to better support the modern web, something that may draw the support of web developers who dislike Internet Explorer.
Spartan還內置了新的渲染引擎，能夠爲現代網頁提供更好的支持。這一功能可能會贏得那些不喜歡IE瀏覽器的開發者們的支持。
Like the other components of the Windows 10 Technical Preview, Project Spartan is still a piece of pre-release software, which means it’s not right for everyone, and there are likely plenty of bugs lurking in its code. People who need their computers to perform reliably day in and day out should probably stay away for the time being.
和Windows 10技術預覽版的其它組件一樣，Project Spartan尚未正式發佈，也就是說它並不適合所有人。代碼裏可能還隱藏着許多bug。那些需要電腦每天穩定工作的人們可能要暫時等等了。
