Windows 8 Tablet has No Flash
Wired also reports that Adobe’s Flash product has had a rough time as computing has shifted to a mobile environment. “Apple stopped shipping Flash capability with products like the 2010 MacBook Air, which gave the 11-inch model a whopping two extra hours of battery life.”
Microsoft’s new Windows 8 Metro is now on the market enhancing social media usage and, hopefully, making user’s lives easier. But, Adobe Flash and other plug-ins may not find the new product so special. Window 8 Metro’s interface will not support Adobe Flash or other plug-ins. In its place the new product welcomes the HTML5 set of web standards, according to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team leader Dean Hachamovitch.
Hachamovitch explained in his blog that running IE without Flash or other plug-ins “improves battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers.”
“Providing compatibility with legacy plug-in technologies would detract from, rather than improve, the consumer experience of browsing in the Metro style UI,” Hachamovitch wrote in the blog.
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