Is Microsoft Planning to Limit Your Browser Choice on Windows 8 Tablets?

If you're used to freely choosing which browser you use in Windows, brace yourself: Mozilla is claiming that Microsoft is planning to limit user choice for browsers on tablets running Windows 8.

In a blog post, Mozilla explains that, on ARM-based devices, the only browser that will be allowed to run in Windows Classic mode will be Microsoft's own Internet Explorer. No Firefox, no Chrome.

What's weird is that it will be possible to use third-party browsers in the snazzy new Metro mode, just not in the classic Windows mode. Microsoft attorney David Heiner has explained that the company isn't allowing other browsers because of the security and power needs of the ARM chips—which, apparently, only Microsoft can properly address. In Metro mode, at least.

Read more about this situation here: http://gizmodo.com/5909150/is-microsoft-planning-to-limit-your-browser-choice-on-windows-8-tablets