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If your company has an outward-facing website, you're probablybraced for the enormous changes that will come when InternetExplorer 10 and Windows 8 hit in a few months. But if Microsoft'sown sites are any indication, you might find yourself reduced tocurling up in a fetal position -- or looking for a new job. An example: Over the weekend I was searching to see if Microsofthad changed anything about its Metro Windows 8 apps, pursuant tothe extensive changes -- er, exciting new services announced at E3 last week . If you follow Windows 8 developments, you probably know thatMicrosoft has killed Zune and promises to make media much moreaccessible, united under the name Xbox Music. So I went spelunking through the Windows 8 RP Metro Music app, tosee what has changed. Lo and behold, the third tile visible in theapp, even before "New Releases," says "Xbox Music/Learn More." Itapped on the tile. Windows 8 brought up the Metro version of IE10 and took me to the Xbox Live music site . So far, so good. At the top of that Web page is a big embeddedvideo titled "Introducing Xbox Music." I tapped on it to see what'snew. Oops. The video requires Silverlight. Quaint. There's a smallmessage that says, "Install Microsoft Silverlight." Of course, youand I know that Silverlight, being an add-in, doesn't run in theMetro version of IE10. In other words, the Metro Music tile took medirectly to something that I couldn't possible see. But never mind.I tapped to install Silverlight. Metro IE10 asked me if I wanted torun the Silverlight installer. I tapped "Run." Metro IE10 flipped me onto the old-fashioned desktop, which is allit can do -- installing apps outside the App Store can only happenon the desktop. Fair enough. UAC prompted me about running theSilverlight Installer. In for a penny, in for a pound, I tapped"Yes." The Silverlight installer kicked in. I tapped "Install Now."The Silverlight installer finished, prompting me to enableMicrosoft update. Sure, I checked the box and tapped "Next." The Silverlight installer finished, leaving me on the old-fashionedWindows desktop with a dialog box that said, "You may have torefresh (F5) the web page for these changes to take effect." OK. Itapped "Close" -- and nothing happened. I was staring at thedesktop, nothing running, the tulip field background being the onlything in sight, no indication of what I should do next, except forthe admonishment that I might need to press F5. Alrightee then. I pushed the Windows button on the tablet, to goback to the Metro Start screen. I tapped the "Metro Music" tileagain. Inside, I tapped the "Xbox Music/Learn More" tile again. Metro IE10 came up at the Xbox Live music site again. But thistime, there was a big black warning in the middle of the screenwith the admonishment, "CAN'T PLAY / There was a problem playingthis video. Try again later." Oy. Of course the site can't play theSilverlight video -- it's running on Metro IE10. "Try again later?"Puh-lease. I decided to flip myself over to the desktop version of IE10. Iswiped on the bottom of the screen, tapped the wrench icon, andchose "View on the Desktop." That flipped me back to the desktop version of IE10, and I was backto the same page with a big embedded "Introducing Xbox Music"video, this time inside desktop IE10, with Silverlight installed. Ah good. Finally, I was ready to watch the video. I tapped on thescreen to play ... and nothing happened. Big black square. Hmmm.Guess I better hit F5, right? So I brought up the Metro touchkeyboard .. and there's no F5. Not anywhere. Google is my friend, and I finally discovered that there is aWindows 8 touch keyboard with F keys available, but at least in RPit isn't enabled. To make a very long and frustrating story short,I swiped from the right, tapped the Settings charm, tapped ChangePC Settings, on the left I tapped General, on the right I scrolleddown to Make the Standard Keyboard Layout Available, and slid itfrom Off to On. Then I pushed the Windows button on the tablet, gotback to the Metro Start screen, tapped the tile for the Desktop,flopped back into Desktop IE10, tapped the touch keyboard icon inthe taskbar, tapped to change keyboard styles and picked the"Classic" big style. Then I tapped Fn, tapped 5, tapped to move thetouch keyboard out of the way, and then ... the video played. That's how hard it was to play the video linked directly from the"Xbox Music/Learn More" third tile of the Metro Music app. I wonderhow long it would take me to explain that sequence to my dad. Text below the video says, "Music is more amazing with Xbox." Yep, I suppose it is. And life is certainly more, uh, interestingwith Windows 8. This story, " Internet Explorer 10: Even Microsoft can't make it work ," was originally published at InfoWorld.com . Get the first word on what the important tech news really meanswith the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog . For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter . The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Billet Casting Machine Manufacturer , China Steel Billet Casting, and more. For more , please visit Melting Induction Furnace today!
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