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hey this is jake with the verge and today we're taking the first look at project Spartan which is Microsoft's replacement for Internet Explorer in Windows 10 it just released a first preview of it and there are three major features that you can check out already the first of those is a reading view and that basically strips away everything that's going on in an article and gives you a plain text no images no videos no ads just really neat way to read through something you've probably seen stuff but like this before with pocket or Instapaper it's in other web browsers it was even in earlier versions of Internet Explorer but it's neat and clean here and really easy to tap into the other features that you can already demo in project Spartan are the beginnings of Cortana and right now pratama it can basically just use a dictionary if you right click you can ask Cortana to define words and it'll pop up right beside it eventually queer times can do a lot more the count like calendar information flight information is going to show up there you'll be able to live up locations and you'll get rich information back from bing that's mostly not there right now but this is a star that is going to look like for the most part and the final feature and this is one that Microsoft been showing off quite a lot about is web note which is where you can tap this little drawing icon in the corner and then you can start annotating web pages so right here I'm circling project Spartan because circles are the main thing you can do that you can highlight parts that you think is important and the main thing is once you're done you can then go out and share it to OneNote or fire it off on Twitter or something so that's what we've got from products part in so far it's a little bit buggy a little early and things are probably going to change over the next few months is Microsoft prepares it for Windows 10 but this is the start of Microsoft's new web browser and it's really important that this is going to be a new browser project Spartan isn't going through the final name expected to be renamed something probably with Microsoft in front of it and that's really the key here Internet Explorer has had a bad name since basically the mid 2000s and that's kept a lot of people away from it once Microsoft replaces it in windows 10 there's a hope that it'll be able to get people back on board again and it's hoping these flashing new features will just help that