Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Tue Feb 19 19:59:53 CST 2013
That's what I'm worried about - that this guy is scratching his own itch, but its not enough to be what everyone wants it to be. That would need some commercial support and that's where it gets tricky. - Hans On 2013-02-19, at 2:42 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi Hans: > > To be honest my expectation are very low but Windows 8 RT users need some > hope and maybe this is it. Now if the functionality of the new APIs does not > provide a full set of feature and Microsoft does not allow x86 32-64 APIs to > be imported or rebuilt this project will have a very short life span. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian > Andersen > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:15 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] New life for Windows8 RT > > The promise of this emulator is a bit overstated. If you compare it to the > wine project, you can immediately see the difficulty in this task. A lot of > windows apps rely heavily on specific windows apis, many of which are no > longer present on Windows RT, so if you are hoping for full compatibility > and the ability to run any windows app, in afraid you will most certainly be > out of luck. > > - Hans > > > > On 2013-02-19, at 10:50 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com