Hacking Windows RT and Surface RT to run desktop apps

By tim, on January 7th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

A developer on the XDA Developers forum, known as clrokr, has figured out how to run unsigned applications on Windows RT (Windows on ARM), including Microsoft’s own-brand Surface RT device.

The technique is described here and involves patching the Windows kernel. Currently it is not possible to jailbreak Windows RT completely, because Secure Boot prevents

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January 7th, 2013 | Tags: , , , | Category: microsoft, mobile, visual studio, windows | 3 comments

Why I want a Windows RT (ARM) tablet

By tim, on August 14th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has now announced that the first Windows RT tablets will come from Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, and from Microsoft itself with Surface.

Windows 8 on ARM is a different thing to Windows 8 on Intel. On Intel, most Windows applications will run. On Windows RT, the ARM version, only Windows Runtime apps

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August 14th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: microsoft, windows | 9 comments

Office in Windows RT: not licensed for business use?

By tim, on June 19th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Journalist Jon Honeyball remarked on Twitter that the version of Microsoft Office in Windows RT, and therefore in the first Microsoft Surface Tablet, is Office Home and Student 2013.

I was sceptical, but it is there on the spec sheet [pdf]:

We already knew that Outlook is missing; but now it seems possible that

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June 19th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: microsoft | One comment