Microsoft has revealed that the metro version of Internet Explorer 10 will not support browser based plug-ins. The new version of IE will rely on HTML 5 instead.Microsoft feels confident that the web is moving forward towards a plug-in free experience. With the YouTube service now being offered in an HTML5 environment and 62% of the top 97,000 websites around the world using HTML5 where Adobe Flash is not available. The purpose behind this is to improve security, reliability and battery life for end users. You can see the flash plug-in work on the desktop version of IE10 but not on the Metro version.
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The desktop environment which is still available in Windows 8 will still support the plug-ins like Flash. But Adobe responded saying that they will bring flash content to Metro using Adobe Air, similar to their offering on Android, iOS and BlackBerry Tablet OS.