Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Thu Dec 13 16:51:11 CST 2012
Those aren't quite browser alternatives in Metro-land though, so if you want to avoid IE in Metro, you are out of luck. But, I imagine this might eventually change, since even Chrome is available on the iPhone / iPad, and we are all used to complaining about Apple's walled garden... and that only applies to their mobile platforms. There is no such walled garden on OS X desktop, which makes Microsoft's restrictions on Metro all the more curious, because it affects everyone from tablet to desktop. - Hans On 2012-12-13, at 2:17 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote: > Hi Hans and Jim -- > > You can get from Win8 AppStore a free "Google Search" app developed by Google and run it in Win8 Metro interface. It probably has IE browser control embedded but anyway - it's a Google product. And you can use sixteen main Google apps right within "Google Search" Metro interface: Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Maps, Images, ... > > Also you can install Google Chrome - the link to its setup is present on MS App Store site - and use it in desktop mode as the main browser. I do use it that way. > > I'm using IE from time to time too on Win8 and so far I haven't seen any issues... > > And I have been using IE on my WinPhone 7.5 for more than an year - no problems... > > Thank you. > > -- Shamil > > > Четверг, 13 декабря 2012, 13:20 от Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>: >> >> You can if you exit the Metro interface and run it as a desktop application. As far as browsers go while in Metro, you only get IE. >> >> This, of course, means that you are not able to run anything other than IE on any Surface tablets running Windows RT. >> >> - Hans >> >> >> >> On 2012-12-13, at 12:58 PM, "Jim Lawrence" < accessd at shaw.ca > wrote: >> >>> I am being facetious. >>> >>> Only if you are running IE as your browser. One question comes to mind; Can >>> you use any other browser than IE on the new Win8 product line? >>> >>> Jim >>> > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com