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Windows 8 Metro IE10 Browser with HTML 5

Metro IE 10 Browser of Windows 8 is going to use HTML 5 instead of Flash which leads the consumer experience browsing in Metro Style UI ie., plug-in free experience. Metro is named for its custom interface and touch layer built with Windows 8 for tablet devices. They also still support Flash and plugins through regular desktop version of IE 10 where users can still experience ActiveX controls, pen and touch input, etc.,

But 97,00o sites ie., 62 % of sites using Adobe Flash have already started changing to HTML 5. Adobe also started to support for HTML 5 video in its upcoming version, it has demonstrated its EDGE HTML 5 app an alternative to existing technology

 

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Launch of Windows Live Messenger 2011 Beta

Windows is about to launch a new messenger Beta in 2011. So microsoft has announced that the users will be able to download the test version of the new Instant Messenger code named Wave 4 in June.
This new IM version is social network enabled that allows the users to chat on social networking sites such as MySpace, LinkedIn Facebook and so on.

The current version of Windows Live Messenger was released in January 2009. The new version includes simple privacy settings and also default sharing is disabled.

It is expected that 22 million French users will be prompted to download the public beta version from 2011 to the month of June in France, until the final few weeks.