Metro IE10 will be "Plug-In Free" (no Flash, no Silverlight)

I think the author's missing one major point: Microsoft is heavily pushing the "touch" interface on Windows 8. I've tried imagining using Flash with a touch interface, and I think it'd be extremely painful.

The title's a bit misleading, implying that there's more than one IE10 (Metro and ?), and that IE10 will not support plugins. It will, but they won't be available with the Metro UI enabled. If you need them, you press one button ("Use Desktop View") to switch UIs and you have them.

This has pretty serious implications for Adobe (captain obvious). Adobe isn't stupid though. The recent "HTML5 gallery" shows that they're serious about making tools that work with new standards-based web technology, but the big variable will be timing. Can they move quickly enough to stay ahead of it? There is no Adobe product that is the "de facto standard" for HTML5/JS/CSS3 authoring like Flash became in the nineties.

The article is infoq is more balanced <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/Metro-Plug-ins" rel="nofollow">http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/Metro-Plug-ins</a><p>The fact that MS may abandon Silverlight and other Windows technologies is far more significant that the "look, look Apple are right again" angle.

Does this mean IE10 finally supports CSS3 animations like firefox/webkit?<p>How about CSS3 text-shadow and a dozen other CSS3 rules?<p>IE9 is still holding back the web, especially since it won't run on XP at all.

Maybe because Metro IE10 runs on WinRT rather than Win32? Just a guess.

And I suppose that means no Adblock, no Noscript, no Lastpass.<p>Welp. I know what browser I <i>WON'T</i> be using when Win8 lands.

Die Flash...Die

no flash, no silverlight, NO USEFUL

Perhaps Microsoft is finally beginning to realize that Web developers are moving on from IE because Microsoft was trying to do their own thing while all the other browsers were moving in a different direction, and now they are trying to catch up to get usage and respectability back.