Microsoft's Windows 8 software that works with the Metro user interface will not have support for Adobe Flash- one of the Internet's most popular technologies.

Dean Hachamovitch, chief of IE development at the software firm, confirmed that Metro user interface would lack support for Flash software.

Microsoft's Metro UI will most probably be used on tablet computers because is has been purposely designed keeping tablets and touchscreens in mind.

In a blog post, Hachamovitch said that the company had made all efforts to make Metro depend on older technologies as little as possible. Metro instead concentrates on HTML 5, the newest version of web technology.

In the blog post, Hachamovitch wrote, "The experience that plug-ins provide today is not a good match with Metro style browsing and the modern HTML5 web."

It should be noted here that Adobe's Flash is one of the most widely used plug-ins for web browsers as a number of websites make use of it to show videos, multimedia and all that.

However, other version of the software, viz. the Windows 8 desktop interface plus the desktop version of IE, will support Flash.