Comments on: Windows 8 ARM tablet apps Metro-only tips insider

By: Tylor Ray Gallagher

Tylor Ray Gallagher — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:47:00 +0000

it dues have a desktop, the metro ui is for touch/kinect and a app store. the desktop is still their and has its own new things about it

By: Tylor Ray Gallagher

Tylor Ray Gallagher — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:47:00 +0000

it dues have a desktop, the metro ui is for touch/kinect and a app store. the desktop is still their and has its own new things about it

By: Tylor Ray Gallagher

Tylor Ray Gallagher — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:43:00 +0000

it dues have a desk top, he even showes it in the video

By: Tylor Ray Gallagher

Tylor Ray Gallagher — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:43:00 +0000

it dues have a desk top, he even showes it in the video

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:45:00 +0000

Describe “a locked down Win8″ please.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:37:00 +0000

Facts: Windows legacy and Metro apps will work an all Windows 8 x86 computers and tablets. On ARM-based cpus only Metro apps will work. We will see all kinds of different tablets in 2012 with Windows 8.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:52:00 +0000

Um, you do know that Microsoft’s options for supporting “Desktop” x86 apps on ARM are basically horrible.

To support x86 desktop apps on ARM, MS would have to build in an x86 emulator or JIT x86 to ARM instruction translator, and to have the whole host of x86 Windows apps redeveloped and recompiled for Windows 8/ARM. To do this, MS would need more main memory, more storage, more CPU resources, all for apps that’ll run slow and be basically unusable as desktop apps require pixel perfect pointing devices. All this would result in more expensive hardware that’ll have poor performance.

It was never in play. If you thought so, you were deluding yourself.

Even Windows 8 x86 tablets with Win desktop app support would be a questionable decision. They could do it. But the results aren’t going to be pretty. It’ll need large storage, large memory and better than Atom CPU resources. Even with that, it may be a mistake to include support for traditional Windows 7 applications.

By: First Name

First Name — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:03:00 +0000

This is a horrible idea. I really hope the ZDNet guy that tipped this is wrong.

By: AppleFUD

AppleFUD — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:17:00 +0000

they might as well have put WP7 on a tablet if that’s all they are trying to do. And yes, it will cause lots of confusion and pissed off customers imo.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:40:00 +0000

After delving into Microsoft’s html5 demo of winphone.. I better understand the befuddled look on peoples faces as they poke at wp7 phones on display (then quickly move on to the next phone..) I had thought it was just not my thing after playing a few times in person. After digging deep into the demo: I hate it and can perfectly understand the low sales numbers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:29:00 +0000

Didn’t most people already assume this? Win8 ARM is basicly their answer to ipad.

I think its going to confuse the hell out of people.

By: AppleFUD

AppleFUD — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:25:00 +0000

I personally think this would be one of THE stupidest things MS could do.

People have become accustomed to a desktop experience and want that experience when on larger screens, thus they would like their tablet to dock to a large screen setup and have a desktop experience. If they fracture the OS like this–x86 gets one thing and ARM another–then there is NO reason to purchase a Win8 ARM tablet over any other–they will have lost every edge they have on the ARM platform. People don’t want Intel on their mobile devices. . . hell, I don’t even want Intel in my laptop–tired of their POS graphics and power sucking performance while listening to a fan constantly.

Guess I shouldn’t be surprised that MS is/can be this clueless.

By: Jason Clark

Jason Clark — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:47:00 +0000

Seems to me that this would make a lot of sense, IF they implement it the right way. Here’s my thinking: ARM powered tablet only runs Metro apps, which makes a lot of sense because the Metro apps are optimized for the Metro interface (read: touch friendly, large buttons, etc.). However, make an x86 based docking station for that tablet that will function as a full Windows install where you can still use the Metro interface if you want, but can also use the standard Windows interface if you need. To me, that’s the best of both worlds and would make a ton of sense. I hope we’ll see a lot of devices similar to the ASUS eeePad Transformer (TF101 and TF201) that allow for such a docking configuration. Shouldn’t be that difficult to do, overall.

By: Barrow23

Barrow23 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:24:00 +0000

You not read the news, Android is very insecure Norton Anti Virus even just released a AV product for Android. Windows 7 is one of the most secure OS out and a locked down Win8 would be as secure as an iPad.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:58:00 +0000

I don’t believe any of this for a second.
No way that microsoft will release a windows that doesn’t have a desktop. Unimaginable. They can’t possible be THIS stupid.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:44:00 +0000

The Metro UI is very hard to use though. And apps pop up on Android every day, and some of them are very high quality. I don’t lack any app or game on my HoneyComb tablet. I also don’t want an OS like Windows with viruses and antiviruses. Maybe Windows 8 without the old non-Metro part will be safe though? [I write apps for Android myself - Memory Owl HD is my best game, it lacks some polish still, but I try my best]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:19:00 +0000

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind it too much if I was only given a metro UI. What’s really important is that it must have good software support like the iPad. Honeycomb is a great OS, although a little half baked. The main thing however that makes it so crap is very little iPad “quality” apps. If Windows 8 can get a head start with apps like Office, then it would be an Android killer definately although beating iOS won’t be easy.