Even if you do that, you still can't run your desktop apps on the ARM model. I really don't want to explain to luddite relatives why they can't run a game unless they buy the more expensive model.
Either ban desktop apps on both models, or neither.
Either ban desktop apps on both models, or neither.
"Well the cheap one is shite, it doesn't really work. The expensive one does work so you want to buy that if you're going to buy one at all."
The alternative is a full port of Win32, which I imagine Microsoft considered and rejected. Even after they incurred all the time and development cost, ISVs would still have to at least recompile.
Not much commercial software but the regular open-source windows stack works.
Link please?
I'm talking about the management decision that only Metro apps can run on RT, which is such a stupid limitation that even Microsoft sees the need to bypass it to get Office on an RT tablet.