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Imagine being able to plug a monitor and keyboard into your phone and using it in the exact same way you'd use your desktop.
It seems to me that this is Microsoft's ultimate goal. The same thing could be possible on Apple's line of products, but it would require painful development hacks because iOS and OS X don't share an API. The .NET framework is more like Java, in that it can be compiled to run, theoretically, anywhere.
Microsoft also decided to share its UI (Metro) across operating systems, which is more than can be said of Apple's products and much more than can be said about Linux/Android/Open webOS.
All Windows users have to do is wait for developers to catch up, which would have happened a long time ago had they eliminated more of the COM and native crap earlier, which they didn't do because too many people would have complained that they couldn't use their old Windows apps. Microsoft has been stuck in this catch-22 and it looks like they're finally trying to make their way out.
It wouldn't surprise me if, 10 years from now, all non-server flavors of Windows run on ARM devices.
The fact that .NET apps can be compiled under different OSs on the x86 platform doesn't mean that they're any closer to be able to run on ARM platforms.
huh... I had thought that WOA was more along the lines of the .NET compact or micro frameworks, in that it was the CLR and framework compiled for ARM. I guess its the CLR and framework compiled for the Windows API which was compiled for ARM..?
The fact that .NET apps can be compiled under different OSs on the x86 platform doesn't mean that they're any closer to be able to run on ARM platforms.
This part is incorrect, though, I think. There are (and have been for a while) versions of .NET that run on embedded (like the .NET micro framework).
It shares little in the way of technical infrastructure with the WinRT/Win8 editions of .NET.
It shares little in the way of technical infrastructure with the WinRT/Win8 editions of .NET.
But isn't that the rub? The JVM on Android shares little in technical infrastructure with the JVM on Windows, but libraries can be shared between them. Same goes for .NET.
Is there any reason that apps written with .NET/XAML or Javascript/HTML won't work in both Pro and RT out-of-the-box? I haven't seen anything to the contrary.
The more I hear the less I like. Hello, Linux!
I've never seen that before in my life. I have 3 copies of windows 8. Details on what you bought where?