3 ms·
I feel like this is in response to the pushback against Windows RT honestly. They put the cart before the horse on that one, trying to get everyone to use an ap
by zeta0134 9y ago
I feel like this is in response to the pushback against Windows RT honestly. They put the cart before the horse on that one, trying to get everyone to use an app store with no apps, and quickly realizing that the base Windows experience wasn't enough for the vast majority of their users.
Killing Windows RT was the right choice, because it was never designed to do something like this. It had a weak translation layer for Win32's API built right in, and they would have needed to do some wizardry to have the two live side by side. No, I think RT was a useful but failed experiment, and I'm excited to see them take this approach with Win32 emulation on ARM. If it works as well as these demos suggest it does, it could finally provide a good path for ARM into consumer laptops and even desktops, to spark some great competition in the space. I'm excited to see where this goes.