Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Thu Dec 13 18:26:05 CST 2012
It will surely come. But another issue, if I'm not mistaken, is that they will only work on Intel based Win8. On WinRT, Microsoft restricts access to APIs to the extent that its impossible. Regarding Googles utilities, if the goal is to avoid IE, due to security issues, this isn't much help. Best regards, Hans-Christian Andersen On 13 Dec 2012, at 15:17, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote: > <<< > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com