Perpetually Incomplete: Microsoft's Greatest Weakness

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  1. News Bot iFans.com News

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  2. GTRagnarok Active Member

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    Windows RT's performance issues simply comes down to hardware, not software. For a converted desktop OS that can run on phone hardware, it's pretty impressive.
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  3. TOT_tomdora Well-Known Member

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    Remember, RT is the locked-down version.
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  4. darkdude1 Active Member

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    iOS hasn't been complete for years. So many basic functions missing (we only just got folder management with photos/videos in iOS recently).
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  5. GTRagnarok Active Member

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    I don't think "locked down" is a good way to describe it. RT is the way it is because it inherently has to be. You just can't run traditional software on a completely different CPU architecture. That doesn't mean the same software can't be rewritten to run on an ARM CPU.

    The same thing would happen if Apple tried to port Mac OS to run on an ARM device.

    And darkdude1 brings up a good point. No operating system is ever complete.
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  6. GazaIan Well-Known Member

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    I'm really pardoning Windows RT; for Microsoft to port their entire desktop OS to the ARM architecture and get it running decently is pretty amazing. I've even checked out a bunch of Surface videos; Windows RT isn't just some tablet OS, it's much more than that. It's the entire Windows OS in there, from the Metro to the Desktop. They act the same, they behave the same, they do the same things. If Microsoft hadn't placed tight restrictions on Windows RT, it could have been a beast of an OS (The big one being allowing people to download applications from outside of the Windows Store and run 3rd party desktop apps). I'm sure Microsoft will continue to perfect Windows RT, but for what it is now, I can actually say Windows RT devices are a PC (people will tell you iPad or Android tablets are not PCs). Microsoft has a beast of an OS in their hands, it's up to them if they're going to let it loose and destroy the competition.
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    I'm sure hackers will find a way around that limitation. I hope.
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  8. GazaIan Well-Known Member

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    Microsoft could have been much more open. Do you have any idea how nice it would have been to let people install ARM apps from outside of the Windows Store? And let them run in Desktop mode rather than forcing developers (except those of Web Browsers) to use Metro only? This could have been some serious OS. Two simple things like that could be ultimate game changers.
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    hhmm..a gamechanger if they let developers develop outside of a marketplace, why does that sound so familiar
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    Since they control the App Store they won't have the virus problem in RT as opposed to Windows 8.
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