Thursday, September 15, 2011

AppleInsider | Microsoft jettisons Flash with 'plug-in free' Windows 8 Metro IE10

One of many dimensions of Microsoft BUILD developments that are bad news for Adobe (via Steve Gillmor)

The tablet-optimized Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 in Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will be a "plug-in free experience," as the company follows Apple's lead in abandoning Adobe Flash in favor of HTML5 on tablets.
Microsoft revealed Wednesday on its Building Windows 8 blog that the Metro version of IE10 will drop plug-ins because the experience that they provide is "not a good match with Metro style browsing and the modern HTML5 web." The company will, however, continue to support Adobe Flash and other plug-ins on the desktop version of Internet Explorer 10.

AppleInsider | Microsoft jettisons Flash with 'plug-in free' Windows 8 Metro IE10

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