About eight months back, when Microsoft introduced its Windows 8 Metro
UI, it was almost clear that the company’s Metro version of Internet
Explorer will not support Adobe Flash or any third party plugins. Now,
the web has been flashing news of the possibility of the Metro UI will
featuring build-in flash support as pointed out in a forum post on WinUnleaked.tk. The forum reveals, “Adobe
Flash player is included in the Release Preview, Adobe shared the
"source code" with Microsoft. Internet Explorer Immersive will coming
with flash too.”
The reason for a plug-in free experience was to improve battery life,
while maintaining security, reliability and privacy for consumers. Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows says, "...Microsoft
does work closely with Adobe, closely enough that Adobe actually
provided Microsoft with source code access to Flash, allowing them to
seamlessly integrate the technology into IE 10. Thus, Microsoft did not
need to make an exception to its no-add-on policy for Internet Explorer
Metro. By making Flash a part of IE 10 Microsoft ensures the code meets
its own standards for reliability, compatibility, security, and also
probably the performance. We hope it works just fine for Microsoft."
Reportedly, Microsoft has refused to comment on this, saying that the
company doesn’t comment on speculations and rumours. Lately, the first Windows 8 tablet
also made its unofficial debut in the form of the Dell Latitude 10
tablet, a 10-incher that is powered by Intel’s Clover Trail Atom Dual
Core processor with 2GB RAM. The leaked specs were soon enough
speculated to be weak. Windows 8, is undoubtedly the most awaited
product of the year. While we’d expected Nokia to come out with its
Windows-based tablet first, the company has completely denied to the most recnt reports by claiming them to be ‘misconstrued.’
