Flash has probably been dropped so MS can promote Silverlight.

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this is probably true that and html 5. i suppose it gives people the option and to be honest im sure chrome or something will work fine

Why not give us the choice Also sounds like you wont be able to swap out the Metro browser, only the desktop one....

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Because it's their platform and they'll do what they wanna.

So, basically, the OS is just Windows Phone 7 with the option to launch an actual desktop PC.

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Have you figured out how to close an application yet (using Task Manager is cheating).

At least Alt-Tab still works!

We're running it on VMware so it's not exactly optimal conditions...

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I'm not condoning it, just suggesting a reason for it! I'm a Chrome user anyway, so as long as the inevitable Metro version of Chrome supports Flash then I don't really care.


You don't, for the same reason you don't in iOS or Android. Apps that aren't doing anything will just save their state and cache themselves until you access them again. You shouldn't need to resort to the task manager unless an app is actually playing up.

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I would be very surprised if you couldnt add your in own browser in metro. i know WP7 is a closed platform but i cant see MS pulling that sort of stunt on Win8 it just wouldn't make sense.

As a man you who is still using XP (yes I know shock horror) is it worth me getting Windows 7 or should I hold out for Windows 8?

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Windows 8 will probably be out late next year, so it might be worth waiting unless you're desperate for DirectX 10/11 support or something. Windows 7 is certainly a lot nicer to use than XP though.

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Yeah, I can get Windows 7 for cheap (£50 for home, £90 for ultimate) thanks to my current student status (yay for education!) unfortunately I don't think I'll still be a student by the time Windows 8 comes out.

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Windows 7, Windows 7, Windows 7, WINDOWS 7!!!

Microsoft did a good deal for Windows 7 pre-orders. I got Home Premium for £40, and that wasn't with a student discount! It's quite possible they'll do something similar for Windows 8, especially as it's in their interests to get as many people to upgrade as possible and it worked out very well with Windows 7.

However, depending on how valuable £50 is to you right now it's not exactly going to hurt you to upgrade to Windows 7 for a year. Windows 8 might turn out to be a buggy mess at launch for all we know, although that's somewhat unlikely.

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Hmm you raise a good point there. I'll have to think it over.



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Is there any sign of official Kinect support? It might make a good companion piece for Metro on HTPCs.

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The drive pooling that they took out of Windows Home Server has been implemented into Windows 8 as well, so now it should be even easier for people to set up their own media computers and avoid the sky/google video/apple TV/ps3 stuff.

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I really don't see the point of all this "Smart TV" stuff. Surely simply adding and HDMI port to TVs solves the problem.

I completely agree, everything has been available for years. All of these other products will end up locking you into subscription services.

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Most people don't want to have to wait for a PC to start up to watch TV. The point in Smart TV is it's easily accessible.

I'm also surprised MS haven't announced their own smart TV platform yet, the metro stuff and apps work so well on Xbox, why not try to embed that in TVs?

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