Microsoft’s upcoming Spartan browser is set to be the first big new release in the desktop browser market for quite some time, upsetting a tentative equilibrium that has existed for roughly the past two years.

Broadly speaking, the trend has been that Google Chrome is the new 800-pound gorilla of the market, taking market share from both Internet Explorer and Firefox, with niche players like Opera and Safari maintaining relatively minimal user bases.

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