Is Mozilla right about Windows 8 being a "return to the dark ages"?

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becker
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Hah, well, well - the issue of APIs raises its head once again, this time outside of Oracle/Google context!  Win32 APIs are only available to Internet Explorer.  Of course, a big difference between Windows and Java is that Windows isn't open source, so the issue of APIs is a bit different here than in the Oracle v Google case.  Also, the complaints only apply to Windows RT which is for ARM based devices.  So yeah, Mozilla (and Google in the context of Chrome) has a point, but it is not as valid as it first sounds, in my opinion.  IE will have privileges on SOME devices that other browsers will not have. 

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