The upcoming Windows 8 tablets have more in common with Apple's iPads than we initially thought. According to Microsoft, the Windows 8 tablet version of Internet Explorer will be plug-in free, which means no Flash support.
In a post on the Internet Explorer blog, the "Metro-style" version of IE will only support HTML 5, like the iPad. This is because Microsoft claims a plug-in free IE "improves battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers."
"Plug-ins were important early on in the web’s history. But the web has come a long way since then with HTML5," wrote Dean Hachomovitch, who leads the IE team at Microsoft.
Adobe offered a rebuttal on their blog, in a post titled "Flash Support on Windows 8 and Metro." They emphasized the support for Flash on the Windows 8 desktop version (a more traditional-style OS, instead of the touch-based tablet version). In addition, they pointed to Machinarium on the iPad as an example of a game built with Flash, but then sold on the App Store as a standalone application.
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If the had used an other development tool than flash it would also run on iPad 1.
it may be time for Adobe to rebuild Flash from the ground up...
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