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[Liskiller]

Microsoft is going to cut the Desktop mode from Windows 8 ARM tablets. That would mean only Metro-style apps would be supported on that platform, according to Paul Thurrott.

Mary-Jo Foley thinks it's the right thing to do if Microsoft and its partners want to position ARM-based Windows tablets as more of a true iPad competitor. Windows 8 is the first time Microsoft will have Windows running on ARM, so why not use that as a place to cut the cord and support only new "modern" apps on that platform? Even if Microsoft did go ahead with its plan to offer Desktop App on Windows 8 ARM tablets, it wouldn’t run existing Windows x86/x64 apps. Developers still were going to have to rewrite them.

[Source: Mary-Jo Foley]

[Gragier_521]

So it will like a completely new OS where all the old apps will be incompatible.

[FalseAgent]

So it will like a completely new OS where all the old apps will be incompatible.

x86 apps still won't run on ARM anyway, even if Desktop Mode were to be kept.

Edited by FalseAgent, 03 December 2011 - 05:59 AM.

[mediar]

Thank you, God! Now, please, help them get rid of all that Metro sh*t in the PC version of Windows 8.

Edited by mediar, 03 December 2011 - 06:51 PM.

[pcHuntqwerty]

They should just install Windows Phone 7.5 in the tablets then..

[Phenom II]

Thurrott has added that another trusted source tells him Desktop mode will now be included in ARM Windows 8

[Villain]

So it will like a completely new OS where all the old apps will be incompatible.

x86 apps still won't run on ARM anyway, even if Desktop Mode were to be kept.

Yup. Old apps never had a chance of working anyway.
Remember when Apple went from PPC processors to Intel processors? Same thing here. You will lose all prior apps at the cost of a hardware change. It's the same thing now. Microsoft is doing what Apple did.