AKIPRESS.COM - Microsoft software giant is set to replace Internet Explorer with a new web browser.

Currently known only by its code name, Project Spartan, the browser will accompany the Windows 10 launch later this year.

Chris Capossela, chief marketing officer for Microsoft, made the revelation at the Microsoft Convergence conference this week, according to tech news site The Verge.

“We’re now researching what the new brand, or the new name, for our browser should be in Windows 10,” said Capossela. “We’ll continue to have Internet Explorer, but we’ll also have a new browser . . . code-named Project Spartan. We have to name the thing.”

"Microsoft has tried, unsuccessfully, to shake off the negative image of Internet Explorer over the past several years with a series of amusing campaigns mocking Internet Explorer 6. The ads didn't improve the situation, and Microsoft's former Internet Explorer chief left the company in December, signalling a new era for the browser," said the statement.