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>there is no difference between what Microsoft is doing here and what Apple is doing. There is a difference and the difference is that Windows RT will allow Fi
by recoiledsnake 14y ago
>there is no difference between what Microsoft is doing here and what Apple is doing.
There is a difference and the difference is that Windows RT will allow Firefox and Chrome and other browsers to run in Metro mode, just not in the desktop.
Edit: I was wrong.
- contextfree 14y agoHowever, the restrictions on the sandbox for Metro style apps mean that alternate browsers would either have to be skins around the IE engine, or be very slow (because it's not possible to run dynamically compiled aka JITted code). That is why there is a special exemption for "Metro style enabled desktop browsers" (which appear to the user as Metro style apps but have all the capabilities of desktop apps) on Windows 8 (x86), which is what Metro style Firefox will use.
- recoiledsnake 14y agoInteresting, I stand corrected in that case. I assumed that the x86 Metro app would work on the ARM version as well.
- wvenable 14y agoMicrosoft isn't letting any non-MS applications run on the ARM desktop. The ARM classic desktop essentially just exists to run Office. It's quite likely that if they ever get around to building a Metro version of Office, the classic desktop will disappear from ARM entirely.
- yuhong 14y agoYea, it has been interesting to me too that MS isn't treating this port similarly to Windows NT for Alpha.