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Rainmeter on Windows RT/Surface?
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dv-ent
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Rainmeter on Windows RT/Surface?
i take it will work just like on a pc ?
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jsmorley
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Re: rainmeter on surface tablet ?
I doubt it. Doesn't the surface tablet only use ARM / Metro apps?dv-ent wrote:i take it will work just like on a pc ?
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lysy1993lbn
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Re: rainmeter on surface tablet ?
Surface Pro is just like normal PC, it would run..
As for surface with Windows RT.. As for now, No. (like jsmorley said, only metro/modern apps)
But is probably only matter of time when someone figure it out how to 'jailbreak' it.
As for surface with Windows RT.. As for now, No. (like jsmorley said, only metro/modern apps)
But is probably only matter of time when someone figure it out how to 'jailbreak' it.
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MerlinTheRed
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Re: rainmeter on surface tablet ?
I think it's not about jailbreaking with Windows RT. Normal apps just won't run on it as far as I understand. The operating system just isn't capable of it.
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poiru
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Re: Rainmeter on Windows RT/Surface?
Windows RT can definitely run applications like mspaint.exe and wordpad.exe, so it is capable at least to some extent. The problem is that we cannot compile desktop applications that run on ARM with Visual Studio 2012 (as far as I know).MerlinTheRed wrote:I think it's not about jailbreaking with Windows RT. Normal apps just won't run on it as far as I understand. The operating system just isn't capable of it.
Even if it is "jailbroken", you cannot run normal 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) binaries on ARM without an emulator. The 32-bit version of Rainmeter, for example, is specifically compiled for processors using the x86 architecture (which ARM processors do not natively support). To run on ARM, we would need to specifically compile a different version of Rainmeter for the ARM architecture (which is not possible right now).lysy1993lbn wrote:But is probably only matter of time when someone figure it out how to 'jailbreak' it.