Hewson on MS Word revision

Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 10, 2013 at 09:54 PM

Well…

>The whole concept of Windows 8 has been to have an OS that transcends
>the hardware barriers, so that you can run it on desktops, notebooks,
>tablets, phones and whatever else might come out in the future.

Well, at the moment Windows 8 RT is a different beast as WIndows 8 für Intel/AMD machines. Both share the same GUI but underneath it, there’s 2 different OSses.
This means: x86/x64 apps do not run on Win 8 RT. This means for example no Outlook on the Surface RT, only on the expensive Pro edition - and Microsoft will not provide a RT edition of Outlook (for technical reasons).

Franz