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I hope they drop this on the surface 2. It would save it from being a paper weight.

• emehrkay 9y ago
  Was the SurfaceRT an ARM device? I have one collecting dust, would be nice if it got an update
  • MBCook 9y ago
    Yes. The RT devices ran ARM, which was one of the reasons for the locked down software policy (nothing else would run anyway).
    • aidenn0 9y ago
      Except that you were also denied much of the existing API and can only install software if you have a developer key from MS. I use my RT device for media playback in the car, but the windows-RT version of VLC hasn't been updated in years, and is somewhat buggy.
      • stirlo 9y ago
        It also took VLC more than 2 years to develop and release the RT version. By the time it was released the market had already declared RT dead.
  • pedasmith 9y ago
    You might find that there are a lot of updates in the queue :-) . I dusted mine off a few months ago, and there were quite a number of them.
• poizan42 9y ago
  A qualified guess would be that you can just install it, because the bootloader is Microsoft signed so it would pass the secure boot check. Edit: Apparently Surface 2 isn't AArch64, so probably not.
  • stiGGG 9y ago
    As far as i understand it, this needs an 64bit ARM SoC?
  • JonathonW 9y ago
    That assumes that: (1) Microsoft makes generic install media available (rather than just device-specific restore media, for devices that ship with Windows 10 ARM), and (2) Windows 10 ARM will run on ARMv7 devices, rather than being restricted to ARMv8 (AArch64) devices.