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2 - http://www.informationweek.com/byte/personal-tech/mobile-applications/gmail-users-cut-off-in-windows-8/240151889 http://www.informationweek.com/byte/persona

by dvt 14y ago

2 - http://www.informationweek.com/byte/personal-tech/mobile-applications/gmail-users-cut-off-in-windows-8/240151889 http://www.informationweek.com/byte/personal-tech/mobile-app... 3 - There is no native Metro Chrome app (talking x86 or x86-64 here, I address RT in my subsequent point), so I'm not sure what you're talking about. The current Metro implementation is NOT a true Metro implementation (it's just the desktop app stuck in a metro window -- no gestures, no larger fonts, etc, etc). 6 - Someone already addressed this point

jmillikin 14y ago
2 - According to that article, Microsoft disabled access to EAS even for Google accounts that still supported it, and has not yet added support for the standardized contact/calendar protocols supported by Google Apps. That is not the same thing as "can't use GMail in the vanilla mail app on my touchscreen W8 laptop". In particular, unless the mail app somehow dropped support for SMTP/IMAP, then it will support Gmail perfectly just like any other desktop client. 3 - So your complaint is that the Metro version of Chrome does not support some Metro features? Again, that is absolutely not the same as "can't have a Metro Chrome app".
- dvt 14y ago
  2 - I guess my quip should have said "thanks Microsoft" in retrospect. (Although even if I wanted to run GMail natively, there's no Windows store app made by Google when there's one made by Yahoo, for example; I would ask why).. 3 - Sorry, but I don't buy this. A desktop app copy-pasted onto a Metro frame (I have no idea what the containers are called so excuse my ignorance) is NOT a Metro app (like the one Mozilla is working on, for example: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Metro https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Metro).