I understand the new Windows 10 ARM machines are fully unlocked - and are just like Windows 10 x86/x64 in every way: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/12/m

I understand the new Windows 10 ARM machines are fully unlocked - and are just like Windows 10 x86/x64 in every way: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/12/microsofts_windows_10_armtwist_comes_closer_with_first_demonstration/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/12/microsofts_windows_... > It's a full desktop experience which, ironically noted by Liliputing, is less locked-down than Windows 10 S, because the Win 10 on ARM can run non-Windows Store applications. > It is, as Pulapaka says. “a full desktop experience” – not just Windows Store apps, “your existing x86 apps will run completely fine on this device.” I speculate that "Windows RT" / Surface RT was a warning-shot to Intel, and that the Windows Store restriction was intentional as not to spook Intel too much - I don't believe anyone in the executive levels of OSG at Microsoft ever believed that Surface RT would take-off - or that the inability to run Win32 programs (provided they were recompiled for ARM) would ever fly with consumers while the device still ostensibly came with an otherwise full Windows explorer.exe desktop experience - restricted only to a modified version of Office 2013.