2016年托福閱讀素材：微軟發(fā)布新瀏覽器取代IE

　　Microsoft rolled out its new Project Spartan web browser for the first time publicly today, offering members of the Windows Insider Program early access to the product designed to revitalize the company’s position in the browser market.

　　今天，微軟為Windows會(huì)員計(jì)劃的參與者們提供機(jī)會(huì)提前嘗試新瀏覽器Project Spartan。這款首次對(duì)外公開(kāi)的產(chǎn)品承載了微軟在瀏覽器市場(chǎng)東山再起的希望。

　　Features of the new browser include support for annotating web pages. Users can either write or type notes on the page, which they can then share with other people. It’s an interesting move by the company to essentially take its collaboration features from Office and bring them to the web.

　　Spartan瀏覽器支持網(wǎng)頁(yè)注釋。用戶可以在頁(yè)面上手寫(xiě)或輸入筆記，并和他人分享。微軟這一頗有意思的舉措從根本上將Office軟件中的協(xié)作功能帶到了web端。

　　In addition, Spartan users will be able to get help from Cortana, Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which also appears on the Windows 10 desktop. According to Microsoft, Cortana be waiting in the background until users want a piece of contextual information that the assistant can bring up. Since Cortana is powered in part by Bing, it’s no surprise that she has found a home in Microsoft’s web browser.

　　此外，Spartan用戶還能從微軟虛擬助手小娜那里獲得幫助。小娜還將出現(xiàn)在Windows 10桌面上。微軟表示，在能為用戶提供想要的相關(guān)信息前，小娜都會(huì)在后臺(tái)靜候。考慮到小娜基于必應(yīng)搜索引擎，她出現(xiàn)在微軟的瀏覽器里也就沒(méi)什么可奇怪的了。

　　People who do a lot of reading on their computer may get some mileage out of Spartan’s Reading List feature, which is similar to systems like Instapaper and Pocket. The browser allows people to save web pages for later, and read them in a simplified view that blocks out distractions. It’s similar to a feature that Apple offers in Safari, with the same name.

　　經(jīng)常用電腦閱讀的用戶能從Spartan的Reading List功能中獲益。該功能和Instapaper、Pocket類(lèi)似，用戶不僅能夠保存頁(yè)面以供稍后閱讀，還能屏蔽各種雜亂信息。蘋(píng)果在Safari瀏覽器中也提供了相似功能，連名稱都一模一樣。

　　Spartan also features a new rendering engine that’s supposed to better support the modern web, something that may draw the support of web developers who dislike Internet Explorer.

　　Spartan還內(nèi)置了新的渲染引擎，能夠?yàn)楝F(xiàn)代網(wǎng)頁(yè)提供更好的支持。這一功能可能會(huì)贏得那些不喜歡IE瀏覽器的開(kāi)發(fā)者們的支持。

　　Like the other components of the Windows 10 Technical Preview, Project Spartan is still a piece of pre-release software, which means it’s not right for everyone, and there are likely plenty of bugs lurking in its code. People who need their computers to perform reliably day in and day out should probably stay away for the time being.

　　和Windows 10技術(shù)預(yù)覽版的其它組件一樣，Project Spartan尚未正式發(fā)布，也就是說(shuō)它并不適合所有人。代碼里可能還隱藏著許多bug。那些需要電腦每天穩(wěn)定工作的人們可能要暫時(shí)等等了。

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