Project Spartan goes official: Windows 10's new browser for the modern web (farewell, Internet Explorer!)

You can now write notes right on top of web pages in Project Spartan, which is a neat feature. Best of all, you don't need a pen to do this - you can just jot down notes and draw on the screen with your fingers. Plus, you can add comments anywhere on a webpage. All of this doodling gets saved and can be easily synced with OneNote, and shared with others.

Most good browsers nowadays have some form of a reading mode that formats out all but the article you're reading so you can focus easier on what’s important. Microsoft, however, has gone one step further and brings a reading list like what you have in apps like Pocket. That list syncs across phone and tablet, keeping a neat cabinet of all your yet-to-be read pages.

And the final awesome touch that we want to highlight is that you can also right click on words to get a definition right in the Project Spartan browser. Not quite Google Translate (and we're curious to see whether there'd be an option for automatic translation of pages in different languages), but very useful.

Project Spartan release date?

All of this awesomeness will take a while to ship on actual devices, but luckily we're not speaking about years here. Rather, Microsoft is promising that Project Spartan will arrive to Windows 10 devices in 3 to 5 months.