"forced with no alternative if you want to use IE"
Again, Windows RT is expected to ship with the desktop version of IE 10. This means that for most practical use cases, any Flash website can be browsed by any version of Windows 8 - except phone which currently doesn't support Flash at all.
Microsoft didn't come up with the walled garden. They didn't lead the industry in the rush to vilify Flash. And they certainly aren't at the forefront of collecting and selling user data to advertisers and marketers.
Again, Windows RT is expected to ship with the desktop version of IE 10. This means that for most practical use cases, any Flash website can be browsed by any version of Windows 8 - except phone which currently doesn't support Flash at all.
Microsoft didn't come up with the walled garden. They didn't lead the industry in the rush to vilify Flash. And they certainly aren't at the forefront of collecting and selling user data to advertisers and marketers.