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I think the primary reason that windows rt failed totally is no software can run on it at all. Not only you can't run x86 software. You can't even download rand

I think the primary reason that windows rt failed totally is no software can run on it at all. Not only you can't run x86 software. You can't even download random executable and run it. It is basically killed by ms itself. It is always a mystery to me that why ms would expect user to buy a device that nearly run nothing. It looks like they want to address this. But I wonder if they will succeed this time.

qball 4y ago
>It is always a mystery to me that why ms would expect user to buy a device that nearly run nothing. Because at the end of the day, Windows RT was a creature born of greed. They saw dollar signs- Apple's 30% App Store cut- and as such wanted a machine that forced you to buy software only from them. There was no technical reason that normal software couldn't run on Windows RT, given that MS themselves did it with Office. So confident were they that this would work that they threw the tablet features onto Windows 8 proper, relegating the reason people buy computers to a secondary function- after all, paying MS for the privilege of developing software was going to be the New Way forward. Besides, don't you want security?
- fomine3 4y ago
  IIRC, Office RT was made as preinstalled Win32 app, not made on Windows Runtime.