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>Also, iOS was closed from the start and Microsoft is closing Windows down now... Err what? You do realize that every single program that will run on Windows 7
by cooldeal 14y ago
>Also, iOS was closed from the start and Microsoft is closing Windows down now...
Err what? You do realize that every single program that will run on Windows 7 will run on Windows 8 right? What do you mean by MS is closing Windows now?
Also, Windows RT hasn't even started shipping yet, so you can say "Windows RT will be closed from the start". Which will make it equivalent to iOS in that regard.
- throwaway64 14y agoexactly zero windows applications that exist currently will run under metro/winRT, so by extension, windows ARM.
- rbanffy 14y agoOddly enough it seems Firefox is able to JIT on Metro/x86
- makomk 14y agoThat's because they're not running under WinRT on x86. Apparently there's a special exemption in the x86 version of Windows 8 which allows the default web browser to provide a Metro interface even though it's still a Win32 application.
- rbanffy 14y agoWin8 is Windows kernel + Windows API + Windows RT. Win8 on ARM is Win8 minus Windows API. It's not a new product - it's a castrated version of the latest version of an old product.
- cooldeal 14y agoBy that metric, neither iOS nor Android are new, they're just castrated versions of OS X and Linux. An OS is much more than it's kernel.