Windows RT: Failure?

[area 66]

Last I saw, OSX could not run iOS apps, although they do have their own store.. it just contains normal desktop apps.

Same here, I think they have some kind of emulator to run them, but i never try or look at them, aside, peoples can see from the first look that IOS is not OSX. but it's hard to know ( for regular peoples) the difference from Windows 8 and Windows 8 rt from the start page

 

[R0bR]

Mac OSX: Full OS that can run desktop software including legacy software but also runs Apps from the Store.
Mac IOS: Runs Apps from the Store.

Last I saw, OSX could not run iOS apps, although they do have their own store.. it just contains normal desktop apps.

I didn't say IOS Apps, I said Apps. The Windows store also has some desktop apps so the concept between both platforms is the same.

 

[area 66]

ROBr, I read again and again your post, from what you say , MAc OSX was the equivalent to Windows 8 and the RT the equivalent of IOS, this is simply no the case. OSX can't run Metro Apps, and OSX don't have a double face ( Metro Start Page, Desktop) , this is a big difference

 

[R0bR]

ROBr, I read again and again your post, from what you say , MAc OSX was the equivalent to Windows 8 and the RT the equivalent of IOS, this is simply no the case. OSX can't run Metro Apps, and OSX don't have a double face ( Metro Start Page, Desktop) , this is a big difference

You are over complicating what I wrote, I was merely making a comparison that what Windows 8 and RT can or cannot run is no different than OSX and IOS. Just because RT can also run Office on the desktop doesn't change the fact that a user can only install Apps from the store, just like IOS.

 

[area 66]

Just because RT can also run Office on the desktop doesn't change the fact that a user can only install Apps from the store, just like IOS.

R0Br can you make an effort to at least make some research , Windows 8 RT don't have Desktop

 

[R0bR]

Just because RT can also run Office on the desktop doesn't change the fact that a user can only install Apps from the store, just like IOS.

R0Br can you make an effort to at least make some research , Windows 8 RT don't have Desktop

Really? lol....if you say so.

Samsung ATIV Tab Hands-On: First Look at Windows RT and Its Desktop

One of many articles...don't worry, I won't hold it against you.

 

[area 66]

lol like if I have not seen this crapy version of Desktop before ...... I was meaning a real desktop, where you can do real thing, this thing don't even have a real control panel. If I mention it, it's because I don't want someone read your post and think the RT come with a full desktop

 

[jbfoster]

Windows RT does have a Desktop but I think they should of called it something different.

Widows RT Desktop has IE10, File Explorer and Office 2013. From what I have seen that is it.

 

[R0bR]

lol like if I have not seen this crapy version of Desktop before ...... I was meaning a real desktop, where you can do real thing, this thing don't even have a real control panel. If I mention it, it's because I don't want someone read your post and think the RT come with a full desktop

LOL....I never said "real" desktop, actually clearly said a desktop to run Office but can only install Apps as in Metro Apps.

 

[area 66]

Windows RT does have a Desktop but I think they should of called it something different.

agree 110%, it's confusing

 

[Coke Robot]

Windows RT does have a Desktop but I think they should of called it something different.

agree 110%, it's confusing

Desktop RT.

 

[jbfoster]

Actually Microsoft should of left the desktop OS alone. Made Windows RT just for tablets. Microsoft could of made Windows 8 for the desktop but left the metro part out. I don't have a problem with Windows 8 on my PC. I can use it just fine. I know what the difference is between the two are.

The average user will and does get confused. Some will buy the RT thinking they can run all the same software they have on their desktop. A coworker was going to buy the Surface but once I explained what Windows RT was, he said $500 for that, HELL NO.

I feel people should not bash Windows 8. By all means post what you don't like about it. Don't just make posts that say Windows 8 sucks.

 

[Coke Robot]

For 500 dollars, I'd buy an RT tablet just for Office. I could simply use a remote desktop connection to my home puter for other needs if they arise.

But preferably, I'd throw 8-900 dollars for a Surface Pro.

 

[area 66]

For 500 dollars, I'd buy an RT tablet just for Office. I could simply use a remote desktop connection to my home puter for other needs if they arise. .

you start to interest me with Remote Desktop, may be you gone sell me a surface Coke ..... as I'm using Remote Desktop Manager I have not yet look at Metro apps to do it, did MS have one ? or do you know if Remote Desktop run on the ( light) desktop version of RT ?

 

[R0bR]

or do you know if Remote Desktop run on the ( light) desktop version of RT ?

Yea there is a Remote Desktop App available which supports RT, add remote desktop gateway and VDI and the fun begins.

 

[area 66]

Ya it work and I can even open few at the time, I will still use Remote Desktop Manger on my PC, but on a tablet it's something I have to look for. Thanks R0Br and Coke ( I may regret this , lol )

 

[skallal]

Me thinks the sweet spot is regular Windows 8 Pro on a Clover Trail device. Now that Windows RT has been out a couple week, my reaction is yawn! My Samsung slate is too high end to be a real portable tablet w/ poor battery life. That is why Clover Trail devices interest me, good battery life w/ real legacy desktop apps. I might be interested in the Surface Pro once it is released. For me Windows 8 itself is the icing on the cake and not Surface.

 

[skallal]

@Area,

Some people get upset if you don't affirm their personal choices.

It is a sign of insecurity.

As this is about RT - do they have the refresh/reset thing on those machines?

Has anybody here actually bought one?

I live near a couple MS retail stores in the flesh. And so far I've only heard of a friend of a friend w/ a Surface tablet. There is a guy at a local restaurant I see a couple days a week w/ an Asus Transformer Android Tablet. We've been comparing notes on tablets for months now. He has a coworker who bought the Surface the first weekend it was released. That is the only Surface purchase I've heard of locally (Orange County CA). I played w/ an Asus Vivo RT device at the MS Store and was impressed but not enough to spring for it...

 

[Coke Robot]

of course you have a Droid and you like it........... Like everything I have and it don't work well for me someone have the same and it work fine.... , it's too obvious than in every tread somone come to say the opposite

here a pic of the mine, I means my old one I give it to my 6 years old daughter to play with

http://www.eightforums.com/chillout-room/11206-windows-phone-8-a.html

Read my review of the Lumia 920, it may help.

 

[area 66]

Read my review of the Lumia 920, it may help.

I don't read review , I try ...I'm not a BB window shopper me, I'm a regular customer of the same cellphone store since 1998 , so I can barrow a demo for a day and try it for real.