Not really, it's just being re-branded for Windows10.
From Techcrunch:
At the same time, Microsoft has promised to support Internet Explorer in Windows 10. From a January blog post written by the company:
We recognize some enterprises have legacy web sites that use older technologies designed only for Internet Explorer, such as custom ActiveX controls and Browser Helper Objects. For these users, Internet Explorer will also be available on Windows 10. Internet Explorer will use the same dual rendering engines as Spartan, ensuring web developers can consistently target the latest web standards.
As such, we have known for some time that Internet Explorer, while seeing its cornice eclipsed, is hardly extinct.
Enter today. Here’s Microsoft’s Chris Capossela on Spartan, as quoted by The Verge (formatting ours):
We’re now researching what the new brand, or the new name, for our browser should be in Windows 10. We’ll continue to have Internet Explorer, but we’ll also have a new browser called Project Spartan, which is codenamed Project Spartan. We have to name the thing.
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