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Surface RT Devices Won't Get Windows 10
whoever57 writes: In its announcement of Windows 10, Microsoft indicated not all devices would get the updated operating system. Now, Microsoft says its Surface devices running Windows RT won't be receiving full updates, though it does plan to roll some new functionality into them. "Given that Windows RT and RT 8.1 were designed for power economizing devices sporting 32-bit ARM architecture, and never had the same functionality — to many users' frustration — as full-blown Windows 8 and 8.1, it comes as little surprise that the RT versions of the operating system should be left out of the latest update loop. In fact, a week before Microsoft's big Windows 10 reveal on January 21, the company released firmware updates for all three models of its Intel-powered Surface Pro series, but neither of the ARM-based Surface tablets — the Surface 2 or Surface RT — received any new updates this month." The Surface Pro line of tablets, which run a normal version of Windows, will be getting an update to Windows 10.
In the Microsoft view of the world, all devices will become power hogs which are comparable to a desktop, because they've completely missed the fucking point.
I think this is why MS's "one platform for everything" notion is complete crap ... a mobile device should have less resources and hardware than a full on desktop.
But to Microsoft, they can only envision a desktop PC ... which really makes all those "I'm a PC/I'm a Mac" commercials more hilarious, because it really seems like Microsoft just doesn't get it. They have yet to see past Exchange and Office and understand what most people actually do with these things.
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