- Asus VivoTab with Windows RT gets $50 price cut; free keyboard
- Download the First BitTorrent Client for Windows RT and Surface RT
- Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 on Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Server 2012
- How to Enable Flash Websites on Windows RT and Surface RT
- How to Create Shutdown and Reboot Tiles on Windows 8’s Start Screen
- How to Easily Add Websites to the Flash Whitelist on Windows RT
- Microsoft, The Web Is No Longer Good Enough; Windows RT Needs Apps And Fast
- Email for Windows RT: Help is on the way
- Windows RT Whitelist Tool Provides Quick, Easy Way to Enable Flash for Certain Sites
- Comprehensive Guide to Microsoft Surface (and Windows RT) with 50+ Tips and Tricks
- Hacking Windows RT Journal: Part 1
- You can run legacy apps on jailbroken Windows RT and will be able to use a third-party app store (soon)
- You Can Now Run x86 Legacy Windows Apps On Surface / Windows RT
- Hack Enables x86 Applications to Run on Windows RT
- Windows RT Jailbreak Tool Still Available, Microsoft Seems to Ignore It
Windows ARM Desktop
Dell Speaks on Windows RT. Why?
While the jury is still out on Windows 8, the verdict on its ARM-based sibling has been decidedly negative: Most feel that Microsoft should simply abandon the fledgling OS and focus on the more compatible and powerful mainstream Windows product. But this week, Dell voiced support for Windows RT, raising some interesting questions. Is this just a close Microsoft partner falling in line, or does Windows RT really have a future?
Microsoft's Surface RT: Using existing Windows apps remotely
Summary: Can you run existing Windows apps on Surface RT and other Windows RT devices? If you have the right back-end infrastructure and licenses, Remote Desktop may provide a way.
Windows RT desktop mode gets detailed, better than expected
Windows RT has opened up a new world of possibilities for Microsoft as well as consumers. Since the tablets are not restricted to either AMD or Intel CPUs, the product supply chain for these tablets will be more competitive and should offer lower priced consumer tablets. While Microsoft has given us a few nuggets of information in the past about the platform, one of the bigger outstanding question was how would the desktop mode work on WOA tablets.
Intel asked about licensing ARM, supporting Windows RT devices by Myriam Joire of Engadget
Does Intel prepare to announce that they are making an ARM Processor? Did Intel phone Microsoft to ask them to rename Windows 8 on ARM to Windows RT to try to keep consumers away from ARM Powered Windows Desktops/Laptops? Which Desktop apps are going to work on Windows RT and is Intel in any way involved in deciding what gets to run on Windows RT?
Computex 2012: ARM is positioned for the post-PC era
Summary: ARM dominates the smartphone and tablet world, but it isn't the first name that comes to mind when you think of Computex. The massive tradeshow in Taiwan, which is going on this week, is largely devoted to the PC industry, and in particular to the many companies that manufacture and assemble the components that go [...]
ARM Looking Forward to Capture 20% of Mobile PC Market by 2015
While Intel Corp. is attempting to enter the market of smartphones and tablets, ARM is trying hard to plant microprocessors based on its architecture into personal computers and servers. ARM is more than optimistic about its opportunities: the company believes that it will control higher share of PC market than Intel will control the market of smartphones.
Qualcomm and Microsoft to Provide Developers with Snapdragon-Based Windows on ARM Test PCs
BARCELONA, Spain – February 29, 2012 – Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its Snapdragon™ processor will be joining Microsoft Corp.’s Windows on ARM developer seeding program. Qualcomm is working with Microsoft to provide test PCs to select developers in order to test and optimize apps for forthcoming Snapdragon-powered Windows on ARM PCs and tablets.
The long kiss goodbye for x86 desktop Windows
Summary: The transition from traditional Windows desktops to the Post-PC world, the ARM architecture and the Metro user interface is inevitable. But it won't a be quick one. - My two ZDNet colleagues, David Gewirtz and Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols have gotten themselves into a bit of a lover’s quarrel. SJVN says that Windows 8 will be dead on arrival, and yet Gewirtz says that Windows 8 will matter for real work, as will Windows 9.
CUPP Computing Aims to Bring Android to any Windows Machine with the PunkThis Board
There's really no shortage of cool products on the market, most of which sadly never see the light of day, but things definitely get more interesting when it comes to Android and more battery life on laptops or tablets. You wouldn't expect a product that would do that, but CUPP Computing can prove you wrong with their PunkThis board, which is a very interesting solution to say the least.
Wintel Alliance Slowly Crumbling, ARM To Eventually Rule The Desktop?
The writing has been on the wall for a while now, that the close relationship between Microsoft and Intel (and by extension AMD) is crumbling into dust. In fact, they have never really been the best of friends. It has been clear since Microsoft unveiled that Windows 8 would run natively on ARM processors that things would never be quite the same again. Apart from some niche server variants of Windows, which could run on Itanium and other processors, all the previous desktop versions, including Windows 7, have run on x86 (and x64 for the last 6 years or so) processors.
