Monday 13 April 2015

Microsoft’s new Windows 10 build for phones features Spartan browser

As promised a week ago, Microsoft has started rolling out the second build (10051) of the Windows 10 technical preview for phones. It is being rolled out to Windows Insider users and as expected comes with an early version of the Spartan browser for phones.
It now supports almost all Lumia phones. Take a look at the list of the phones supported here. However, it doesn’t support the Lumia Icon, 930 and even the 640XL due to scaling problem. Microsoft has explained in its blogpost, “You’ll see that the list has remained largely unchanged with one exception – the Lumia Icon. Unfortunately there is an issue with scaling on certain devices (930, Icon, and 640XL) which makes the UI too small to be usable, and we need to add code to support new scaling thresholds for these devices.”
However, it still doesn’t support Microsoft phones that are built by OEMs. It also brings hordes of new features like the early version of Project Spartan that uses the new rendering engine and promises to give greater interoperability with the modern mobile web. It also includes early versions of Reading View and Reading List. It is not the default browser, for now, and exists side-by-side with IE11.

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