Recently a new preview of Windows 10 surfaced onto the web and while the highlight of the build were the new Mail and Calendar apps, Project Spartan also shows a few interesting improvements worth pointing out.
The new web browser for Windows 10 build 10051, now has a new “Open with Internet Explorer” option in the More Actions button (…) to offer compatibility with legacy websites that won’t load correctly in the new browser. This new addition to Spartan indicates that while Microsoft will stop pinning Internet Explorer 11 on the taskbar and plans to remove the link from the All Apps list, it seems that the company won’t fully hide away IE 11 from users.
Windows 10 build 10051 also reveals that Project Spartan has bumped from version 0.10 to 0.11, which indicates the new web browser still in the very early stage of development.
On Spartan version 0.11 you can now view and manage your downloads in the download manager, which is something that wasn’t available in build 10049. (To access the download manager, simply click the “Favorites” folder icon and click the download manager button on the right.)
Also when bookmarking a new web page, you’ll find a more streamlined “Add to” menu.
Finally, I also noticed that you can now type in the address bar “about:flags” to access the Experimental Features in Project Spartan. In this page, you test various experimental features Microsoft is working on. For example, you can change the user agent string, the default string is set to “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0”.
You can also enable or disable features such as Standard Document Scroll Properties, use independent scrolling for mouse, keyboard and scrollbar, touch events, interop mouse events for touch, enable CSS filter property, enable experimental JavaScript features, enable asm.js, and more.
Mauro Huculak is a Windows How-To Expert who started Pureinfotech in 2010 as an independent online publication. He has also been a Windows Central contributor for nearly a decade. Mauro has over 14 years of experience writing comprehensive guides and creating professional videos about Windows and software, including Android and Linux. Before becoming a technology writer, he was an IT administrator for seven years. In total, Mauro has over 20 years of combined experience in technology. Throughout his career, he achieved different professional certifications from Microsoft (MSCA), Cisco (CCNP), VMware (VCP), and CompTIA (A+ and Network+), and he has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for many years. You can follow him on X (Twitter), YouTube, LinkedIn and About.me. Email him at [email protected].