Reports from anonymous sources confirm that Microsoft's newest operating system, the Microsoft Windows 10, will be launched with a newly developed internet browser. If Microsoft will continue with its current naming process, the new internet browser will be called IE 12. However, several reports along with a couple of leaked screenshots from Microsoft reveal a project called "zSpartan" and this lead to speculations that Microsoft is cooking something up for its upcoming operating system.

A report from ZDNet indicates that Microsoft is developing a new internet browser, it was not stated directly as to why but this might be due to the fact that its Internet Explorer browser has been steadily overshadowed by its closest rivals; Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Microsoft's new browser code-named "Spartan" will be released as a "lightweight" browser with a user interface that looks and fell like that of Chrome and Firefox. Additional reports however indicate that the Spartan project will be released along with Internet Explorer in the upcoming debut of Window's 10 next year.

Microsoft Internet Explorer has been long detached to its glory days, the days when the browser handle more than 90% of all the internet traffic coming from both desktop and laptop computers. However, with the advent of more convenient and powerful browsers in the market, Internet Explorer saw its traffic share drop from 90% to merely 58%. Right now the Firefox and Chrome fight for overall dominance over the web browser battle, shrugging Microsoft Internet Explorer to the third spot. It get worse for Microsoft in the mobile platform wherein Apple's Safari, Google Chrome and Google's Android browser liming Microsoft Internet Explorer's total traffic share to just 2%.

With reports coming out that Windows 10 is designed to run on a variety of platform it is inevitable that the new Internet Explorer is targeting a wider user base. Internet Explorer currently runs only on desktop computers and laptops. However, with these recent developments from Microsoft it will be no surprise to see a version of Internet Explorer running on tablets, android devices or maybe even the iOS platform.