If you'd like to try it out a version of Chrome on Windows 8 once it's available -most likely later today or perhaps over the weekend - you'll need to switch over to the Chrome dev channel.
While Chrome will run in Windows 8's Metro interface on desktop PCs, Google faces the same Microsoft platform restrictions Mozilla has spoken out against and as of now there will be no version of Chrome for Win Rt, the version of Windows 8 designed to run on ARM processors.
Since win Rt is the most likely candidate for tablets that means any Windows 8 tablets will be Chrome free.
Google has stopped short of being as vocal as Mozilla- which has called Win Rt "a return to the
digital dark ages. The chromium blog merely notes that "Microsoft is not allowing browsers other than Internet Explorer on the platform,"though there is a link in that sentence to Mozilla's original post decrying Microsoft's restrictions.
The crux of Mozilla's gripe-which Google seems to be tacitly endorsing as will-is that in Windows RT Microsoft gives its own Internet Explorer access to special APIs other web browsers can't use.
Mozilla's Asa Dotzler has previously pointed out hat at least part of what makes this different than Apples iOS-which imposes similar restrictions on software-is that Microsoft still has binding agreements with the EU about browser choice eon Windows, and Windows RT is still Windows.
It's possible that Microsoft will change its mind about third-party web browsers on WinRT(or be legally compelled to change its mind) before any Windows 8 tablets arrive, but int the mean time at least you'll soon be able to use Chrome with Windows 8 on desktop machines.
Saturday 16 June 2012
Google Readies Chorome for Windows 8 Metro
Google is Hard at work on a version of its Chrome browser that will work with Windows 8's Metro environment. The Chromium blog recently announced that the next build of Chrome's dev channel will run in both the Metro and desktop environments of windows 8.
If you'd like to try it out a version of Chrome on Windows 8 once it's available -most likely later today or perhaps over the weekend - you'll need to switch over to the Chrome dev channel.
While Chrome will run in Windows 8's Metro interface on desktop PCs, Google faces the same Microsoft platform restrictions Mozilla has spoken out against and as of now there will be no version of Chrome for Win Rt, the version of Windows 8 designed to run on ARM processors.
Since win Rt is the most likely candidate for tablets that means any Windows 8 tablets will be Chrome free.
Google has stopped short of being as vocal as Mozilla- which has called Win Rt "a return to the
digital dark ages. The chromium blog merely notes that "Microsoft is not allowing browsers other than Internet Explorer on the platform,"though there is a link in that sentence to Mozilla's original post decrying Microsoft's restrictions.
The crux of Mozilla's gripe-which Google seems to be tacitly endorsing as will-is that in Windows RT Microsoft gives its own Internet Explorer access to special APIs other web browsers can't use.
Mozilla's Asa Dotzler has previously pointed out hat at least part of what makes this different than Apples iOS-which imposes similar restrictions on software-is that Microsoft still has binding agreements with the EU about browser choice eon Windows, and Windows RT is still Windows.
It's possible that Microsoft will change its mind about third-party web browsers on WinRT(or be legally compelled to change its mind) before any Windows 8 tablets arrive, but int the mean time at least you'll soon be able to use Chrome with Windows 8 on desktop machines.
If you'd like to try it out a version of Chrome on Windows 8 once it's available -most likely later today or perhaps over the weekend - you'll need to switch over to the Chrome dev channel.
While Chrome will run in Windows 8's Metro interface on desktop PCs, Google faces the same Microsoft platform restrictions Mozilla has spoken out against and as of now there will be no version of Chrome for Win Rt, the version of Windows 8 designed to run on ARM processors.
Since win Rt is the most likely candidate for tablets that means any Windows 8 tablets will be Chrome free.
Google has stopped short of being as vocal as Mozilla- which has called Win Rt "a return to the
digital dark ages. The chromium blog merely notes that "Microsoft is not allowing browsers other than Internet Explorer on the platform,"though there is a link in that sentence to Mozilla's original post decrying Microsoft's restrictions.
The crux of Mozilla's gripe-which Google seems to be tacitly endorsing as will-is that in Windows RT Microsoft gives its own Internet Explorer access to special APIs other web browsers can't use.
Mozilla's Asa Dotzler has previously pointed out hat at least part of what makes this different than Apples iOS-which imposes similar restrictions on software-is that Microsoft still has binding agreements with the EU about browser choice eon Windows, and Windows RT is still Windows.
It's possible that Microsoft will change its mind about third-party web browsers on WinRT(or be legally compelled to change its mind) before any Windows 8 tablets arrive, but int the mean time at least you'll soon be able to use Chrome with Windows 8 on desktop machines.
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