Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Thu Dec 13 17:17:13 CST 2012
<<< so if you want to avoid IE in Metro, you are out of luck >>> Hans -- But Google is free to develop and release a full featured Google Chrome Win8 Metro style app - and they will probably do that soon. And as I have noted Google has already released a "Google Search" app, which has most of the features and most of the Google apps an average Google Chrome user needs... Thank you. -- Shamil Четверг, 13 декабря 2012, 14:51 от Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>: > >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 > > >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com