4/09/2015

How to enable Spartan's Edge Rendering Engine in Windows 10

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In January, Microsoft revealed that Windows 10 will ship with a brand-new browser, code-named Project Spartan. Spartan is a modern, lightweight browser that Microsoft hopes to deploy across multiple devices to give you a "single browsing experience," similar to Google Chrome.

Spartan is also faster than Internet Explorer, thanks to a new rendering engine called "Edge." While the current version of the Windows 10 Technical Preview (Build 9926) doesn't have the Spartan browser available, it does have Spartan's Edge Rendering Engine -- if you know where to look.
Here's how to enable the Spartan Edge Rendering Engine in Internet Explorer 11:
1. Open Internet Explorer and type "about:flags" in the address bar and hit Enter.
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Screenshot by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET
2. A page called Experimental Features will open. Under the section labeled Enable Experimental Web Platform Features, click the radio button next to Enabled (default is Automatic).