Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Feb 19 12:50:21 CST 2013
It looks like a third party hacker has produced a product that may resurrect Windows 8 RT laptops potential and falling sales. Business has largely ignored the RT version as it does not support x86 applications. Major businesses migrate from one technology at a slow pace. It takes millions of dollar to move their huge libraries of business products from one platform to another...it will take much longer to re-write all their applications (...and most likely all these products will be translated to the Web/Cloud when they are re-written)...so to what advantage, other than reduced power usage? Many developers may have bought these Windows 8 RT laptops but few other disciplines have bothered, as there is now, just not any products available for this platform. This appears to have now changed as a hacker has produced an emulator. The program was initially created so the fellow could run his games on the computer. It is still in beta mode but now, with additional assistance a stable product may be on the market soon. At that time it will be a perfect tool to demonstrate to company management the viability of this platform. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2095934 The video to say the least is cruddy but it does demonstrate the potential: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uzjV406nVs&feature=youtu.be Jim