Today there was a huge blog post by Steven Sinofsky talking about the development of Windows 8 running on ARM http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windows-for-the-arm-processor-architecture.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage. But the blog post also goes on to say that it will avoid constructs such as “add-ins” to deliver on battery life and other promises of what WOA can do. What is strange about this is that Windows 8 on ARM has been previously demoed running flash in Internet Explorer… SO… Confused… I am… Will Windows 8 on ARM support browser plug-ins? I don’t know… but somewhere the code does exist.
Jump to about 2m20s to check out the part about Flash.
7 Comments to 'Video: FLASH running in IE on Windows 8 on ARM'
09/02/2012
Blog Post: Video: FLASH running in IE on Windows 8 on ARM http://t.co/ZTc5yRqR
09/02/2012
Video: FLASH running in IE on Windows 8 on ARM http://t.co/02ycPg3F
10/02/2012
FLASH running in IE on Windows 8 on ARM http://t.co/nPXFrlvO via @alanburchill
11/02/2012
Anything that Microsoft calls a “technology proof of concept” isn’t something it’s committing to put into the operating system…
11/02/2012
[...] and a Desktop version that would allow plug-ins. Microsoft officials demonstrated at Build a Windows 8 ARM-based tablet that allowed a Flash plug-in. (Thanks to MVP Alan Burchill for finding that video, with the Flash demo starting at [...]
22/02/2012
[...] about Windows 8 on ARM. Features come and go. Perhaps the most egregious example is in a video made at the Build conference last September. It shows Roger Gulrajani, from the Windows Hardware Ecosystem group, demonstrating [...]
24/02/2012
[...] rumors, quite about Windows 8 on ARM. Features come and go. Perhaps a many gross instance is in a video done during a Build conference final September. It shows Roger Gulrajani, from a Windows Hardware Ecosystem group, demonstrating [...]