Re:Metro IE10 will be "Plug-In Free" (no Flash, no Silverlight)
by dangrossman on Thursday September 15, 2011 @03:50AM
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The title's a bit misleading, implying that there's more than one IE10 (Metro and ?), and that IE10 will not support plugins. It will, but they won't be available with the Metro UI enabled. If you need them, you press one button ("Use Desktop View") to switch UIs and you have them.
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Re:Metro IE10 will be "Plug-In Free" (no Flash, no Silverlight)
by HardyLeung on Thursday September 15, 2011 @04:00AM
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I don't know how Metro IE and Desktop IE are separate or one and the same, but from what I read, only Metro IE would be available to some devices, most notably ARM tablets.
Re:Metro IE10 will be "Plug-In Free" (no Flash, no Silverlight)
by shawnz on Thursday September 15, 2011 @07:14AM
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AFAIK, Metro is always available, but desktop IE is only available on x86 (or the like).
Re:Metro IE10 will be "Plug-In Free" (no Flash, no Silverlight)
by TomOfTTB on Thursday September 15, 2011 @10:23AM
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That hasn't been confirmed and probably isn't true. John Gruber came up with that theory based on what he felt were hints from Microsoft but that seems to be dis-proven by this ARM tablet running Windows Desktop: http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/14/nvidia-kal-el-windows-8-t...