Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? 661
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?"
Re:Microsoft (Score:4, Interesting)
H.264 is technically better format too. That's why it should be picked, not based on some religious free software views.
Re:Microsoft (Score:5, Interesting)
Microsoft is only going to support the codecs they want to support, so this is just another way of leveraging what's left of their monopoly position — it's just more evil. The real goal is to murder Flash which competes with Microsoft's own technologies, like the supposedly-soon-to-be-abandoned Silverlight. Silverlight is pure canned shit compared to Flash. You can't even sync video to vtrace on XP. Microsoft literally traded a seat on their board for Netflix using Silverlight instead of Flash. As a result, there is no Linux support.
Fuck Microsoft, and fuck the horse that rode in on them.
Re:Microsoft (Score:4, Interesting)
they aren't confident in the codebase being patent free.
And how could they be? By reviewing the 1.5 trillion software patents already on record?
Re:Microsoft (Score:3, Interesting)
The answer is - iPhone/Mac/Safari uses the h.264 interface on YouTube ... regardless of HTML5
Apple do not seem to like Flash - for good reasons - and so have persuaded Google to allow it's software to use the native codecs regardless of HTML 5 support
the iPhone has a specific chip to decode h.264