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They did, Windows RT
by mavhc 8y ago
They did, Windows RT
- Hydraulix989 8y agoI thought RT was just an ARM port, not a rewrite?
- gruez 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime
- Hydraulix989 8y agoClose, but not quite. The first sentence on the linked article says: "'WinRT' redirects here. It is not to be confused with Windows RT." So "Windows RT" is an ARM port of the Windows 8 OS, while "Windows Runtime" aka "WinRT" is an API for "modern" Windows applications. To be clear, I was responding to OP's literal "Windows RT" mention in my parent post.
- mavhc 8y agoWell, it's both I guess, it's designed to only run WinRT Store apps, not Win32 (Although Win32 is somewhat ported as Office runs on it), but that's the general idea, to break with the past. But the only reason people use Windows is The Past
- MBCook 8y agoThat wasn’t a ground up rewrite, that was just the normal windows running on a different processor. They limited features so that it would be in its own market segment… But it was not a completely new OS.
- criddell 8y agoI think that's the point they should have hard forked Windows. Have the business version continue on with the Windows 7 UI and the consumer version with Metro and ARM. All the things like touch support, Cortana, Groove Music, the XBox app, Weather, News, etc should have been available only on the consumer version of Windows.
- paulcarroty 8y agoyet another OS without apps.