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>When the Windows ARM port was announced, many people had hoped for general purpose ARM devices that could replace their cheap laptops AFAIK Microsoft never cl
by recoiledsnake 14y ago
>When the Windows ARM port was announced, many people had hoped for general purpose ARM devices that could replace their cheap laptops
AFAIK Microsoft never claimed this, so I don't see how the complaints are valid.
Also, many people here who are complaining that want to do this are unlikely to be running Windows on those devices and would prefer almost anything else, especially Ubuntu or Android.
- pygy_ 14y agoThe first public demo showed Office running on ARM. I don't think that Metro had been announced at the time. Way to set expectations... mine at least. Edit: See also this: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-desktop-apps-will-run-on-windows-8-on-arm/10756 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-desktop-apps-w...
- recoiledsnake 14y agoAnd Office comes _bundled_ with Windows RT.
- pmjordan 14y agoMicrosoft are keen to position Windows 8 on ARM as "just like Windows 8 on x86," when in fact it is nothing of the sort.