[marshray]

Read the guidelines http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/jj193557%28v=vs.8...

> We place sites with Flash content on the CV list if doing so delivers the best user experience in Internet Explorer 10 with those sites. For example, how responsive is the content to touch? Does it work well with the onscreen keyboard, or affect battery life? Do visual prompts comply with the Windows Store app user experience guidelines? Sites that rely on capabilities (for example, rollover events and peer-to-peer (P2P) functionality) that are not supported within Windows UX guidelines for Windows Store apps, and don't degrade gracefully in their absence, are better off running in Internet Explorer 10 for the desktop with Flash.

It sounds to me like they're just saying they don't want plugins screwing up their shiny new UI. If you want to run your arbitrary plugins, just do it with the classic desktop version of the browser.

[Karunamon]

>It sounds to me like they're just saying they don't want plugins screwing up their shiny new UI.

The end user's shiny new UI. That's why this leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Why not just make Flash click to enable? That'll stop ads and most other shenanigans while still making things that users want to access (and haven't been blessed by MS for whatever reason) still able to access them.

[marshray]

> Why not just make Flash click to enable?

"Developers with sites that need plug-ins can use an HTTP header or META tag to signal Internet Explorer 10 to prompt the user to switch to Internet Explorer for the desktop."

[belorn]

I would indeed be surprised if they had written "Any commercial competing products to anything in our app-store will also be rejected". It would just surprise me more that removing a large portion of the competition did not add into the decision.

[bskap]

It's got nothing to do with competition. Silverlight is also not allowed in the Modern IE10.