Microsoft was sued and lost a court case regarding 'metro uh so they had to change it to 'modern ui' as far as I remember On Jan 31, 2013 4:59 PM, "Kessler CTR Mark J" <mark.kessler....@usmc.mil> wrote:
> Actually I think they said they will have AIR on Win8, but they are not > making anything special for the Metro interface or what Adobe seems to be > calling the "Modern UI". However if you're not on the compatibility list > it will show up for the desktop, but not the "Modern UI". > > "Flash Player release and debug players are available and supported for > Windows 8 Desktop and Modern UI experiences on both x86/64 and ARM > platforms." > > " Flash content not on the compatibility view list will not be displayed > within Modern UI style Internet Explorer on Windows 8" > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicholas Kwiatkowski [mailto:nicho...@spoon.as] > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:34 AM > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: Flash Platform Whitepaper > > According to the whitepaper, there is no plans to support AIR on Windows 8 > RT (ARM based processors, or tablets). Windows 8 (Intel based processors, > or desktops), are still supported. > > I'm not surprised by this move. I see it more as a wait-and-see than > anything else. Windows 8 RT has a *very* low take rate right now. If they > are not supporting Linux, then not supporting Windows 8 RT is a no-brainer, > at this time. I'm sure if Windows 8 RT becomes more popular they will > re-evaluate which platforms they want to support. > > -Nick >
