Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash?

An anonymous reader writes "The Microsoft Windows Engineering Team has announced that the Metro interface web browser in Windows 8 will not support plug-ins — Adobe Flash included. Users will still be able to open a traditional browser interface to make use of legacy sites that rely upon plug-ins. This news follows a recent blog post by the Internet Explorer 10 team pushing the use of HTML5 video as a replacement to Flash video. With Google, Apple, Mozilla, Opera and other major players already backing HTML5 — is Adobe Flash finally dead?"

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Re:Microsoft

[ge7]

Why's microsoft think they're the center of the universe?

That's almost like some angry, emo and ugly teenage girl looking at some beautiful girl and thinking "who she thinks she is, the center of the universe?" when all the guys like her instead. Sometimes it helps to come forward and be a little bit more likable - a good advice to Linux and free software.

Re:Microsoft

[aristotle-dude]

Spoken like a linux fanatic who apparently does not work for a living. Bread meat, eggs, dairy, gas, rent, electricity, parking, insurance, transit passes all cost money so why do you think that software has to be free (gratis)? Freedom is never free in the real world so why shouldn't you have to pay for it in the software world?

RMS has a perverted idea of freedom. Not only does he force people who use GPL'ed code to contribute back in the name of "freedom" but he assigns freedom to the code itself which is an inanimate object. It is not a person. Only people or organizations representing people should have rights. Code is "property". I have no problem with someone requiring effort in as "payment" in lieu of money but just don't be a hypocrite and claim that it is somehow more "freedom" than writing someone a check for a reasonable fee. If I have to pay for the basic necessities of life and I get paid for my work writing software for my company then I should be willing to pay for software other people write.