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Microsoft would probably like you to forget about Windows RT.
The company's 2012 attempt at creating a "lite" version of its Windows operating system — the poorly received Windows 8, to be specific — Windows RT ran only on simplified ARM processors, the same kind of internal chips that power smartphones and tablets.
As a result, the devices that ran Windows RT worked only with the mobile-friendly apps in Microsoft's app store. There was a desktop mode that ran modified versions of some legacy apps (aka x86 apps) you'd download from the web, but it wasn't the same as the full Windows experience people had come to expect — and need.
It didn't go over well. Microsoft was eager to have Windows latch onto the mobile boom it missed, but RT's app support was weak, many of those apps were more limited than their regular counterparts, and the Windows RT branding led to confusion over exactly what the OS was meant to be. It fizzled in two years.
But Microsoft is trying again. There's Windows 10 S, for one, which the company unveiled earlier this month. Like Windows RT, it's a modified OS lets you download only apps from the Windows app store — though Microsoft has made more of an effort to get traditional apps to work within those confines.
Windows 10 S devices still work with desktop processors, though (i.e., those from Intel and, to a lesser extent, AMD). The more apt connection to Windows RT is Microsoft's renewed interest in putting Windows on a mobile, ARM-based chip.
You can read more here................http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-windows-on-snapdragon-arm-laptops-announced-2017-5
The company's 2012 attempt at creating a "lite" version of its Windows operating system — the poorly received Windows 8, to be specific — Windows RT ran only on simplified ARM processors, the same kind of internal chips that power smartphones and tablets.
As a result, the devices that ran Windows RT worked only with the mobile-friendly apps in Microsoft's app store. There was a desktop mode that ran modified versions of some legacy apps (aka x86 apps) you'd download from the web, but it wasn't the same as the full Windows experience people had come to expect — and need.
It didn't go over well. Microsoft was eager to have Windows latch onto the mobile boom it missed, but RT's app support was weak, many of those apps were more limited than their regular counterparts, and the Windows RT branding led to confusion over exactly what the OS was meant to be. It fizzled in two years.
But Microsoft is trying again. There's Windows 10 S, for one, which the company unveiled earlier this month. Like Windows RT, it's a modified OS lets you download only apps from the Windows app store — though Microsoft has made more of an effort to get traditional apps to work within those confines.
Windows 10 S devices still work with desktop processors, though (i.e., those from Intel and, to a lesser extent, AMD). The more apt connection to Windows RT is Microsoft's renewed interest in putting Windows on a mobile, ARM-based chip.
You can read more here................http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-windows-on-snapdragon-arm-laptops-announced-2017-5
