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You Can Now Run x86 Legacy Windows Apps On Surface !!!
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:33 am
by Antonio Linares
This is really interesting:
http://www.redmondpie.com/you-can-now-r ... indows-rt/
Now Microsoft tablets are much more interesting
allows running x86 Windows applications on Windows RT (ARM) tablets. The tool emulates x86 instructions and passes Windows API calls to WinRT kernel with necessary modifications.
Unless I am wrong, Windows RT ARM tablets are much cheaper than x86 based ones...
Re: You Can Now Run x86 Legacy Windows Apps On Surface !!!
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:55 am
by Bayron
Nice...
Re: You Can Now Run x86 Legacy Windows Apps On Surface !!!
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:09 pm
by Antonio Linares
Though I am afraid they may go quite slow, as they use a translator from X86 to ARM instructions...
The apps don't run natively. Similar like QEmu
Re: You Can Now Run x86 Legacy Windows Apps On Surface !!!
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:24 pm
by mastintin
and you need to jailbreak the surface. Right?
Re: You Can Now Run x86 Legacy Windows Apps On Surface !!!
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:16 pm
by Antonio Linares
Manuel,
I just had a quick review of the process and I think that jailbreak was the first requirement.
IMO, its a shame that jailbreaks are needed for iOS, Android, Surface, etc (just a thought)