, DeathByVisualStudio wrote

@evildictaitor: It's this major hole in IE along with all of the other changes to W8. You can whittle any of the W8 changes down to very specific things and sure you could swallow them individually but add them all together and you have one big POS. W8 is the elephant; funny how true that is in this case...

There's lots of things in Windows 8 that I don't like. But IE seem to have made only one big change - to say that Flash is now a minor part of the web's future. And given the fact that Apple and Google and Mozilla have all said that already, and the fact that the IE team (and the Google Chrome team and Mozilla) have all been privately furious with Adobe for years about flash being the most insecure part of all of their respective browsers, I really think that this decision is actually a really important nail in the coffin for flash, and hopefully will signal the beginning of the end for websites demanding that I install insecure things into my browser in order to view their content.

HTML5 was invented to kill flash. Now that IE supports HTML5, and all of the big flash websites have started their transition away from flash, IE have done the right thing by saying future versions of IE will prefer HTML5. Flash is still there, but future modes of IE (such as metro mode) will be flash-less by default.