Microsoft also again reiterated, as in the document, that Metro browsers will only work if set as the default browser. To go alongside this announcement, Microsoft released a document titled “Developing a Metro style enabled desktop browser.” One of the requirements is for the browser to have a Metro and non-Metro version, to work in both sides of Windows 8. Windows 8 categorises these browsers as “Metro style enabled desktop browsers.” As is apparent now, this category was created because other developers are allowed to create Metro browsers.
Bondy, Microsoft revealed that there would be a new category for third-party Metro browsers. In addition to Google developing a browser for Windows 8, Mozilla confirmed last week that they would also be developing a browser for the platform.Īlong with the announcement made by Mozilla developer Brian R.