You Can Now Run x86 Legacy Windows Apps On Surface !!!

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You Can Now Run x86 Legacy Windows Apps On Surface !!!
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:33 AM

This is really interesting:

http://www.redmondpie.com/you-can-now-run-x86-legacy-windows-apps-on-surface-windows-rt/

Now Microsoft tablets are much more interesting

allows running x86 Windows applications on Windows RT (ARM) tablets. The tool emulates x86 instructions and passes Windows API calls to WinRT kernel with necessary modifications.

Unless I am wrong, Windows RT ARM tablets are much cheaper than x86 based ones...

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Re: You Can Now Run x86 Legacy Windows Apps On Surface !!!
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:55 AM

Nice...

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Re: You Can Now Run x86 Legacy Windows Apps On Surface !!!
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:09 PM

Though I am afraid they may go quite slow, as they use a translator from X86 to ARM instructions...

The apps don't run natively. Similar like QEmu

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Re: You Can Now Run x86 Legacy Windows Apps On Surface !!!
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 03:24 PM

and you need to jailbreak the surface. Right?

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Re: You Can Now Run x86 Legacy Windows Apps On Surface !!!
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 05:16 PM

Manuel,

I just had a quick review of the process and I think that jailbreak was the first requirement.

IMO, its a shame that jailbreaks are needed for iOS, Android, Surface, etc (just a thought) :-)

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