A rumor floats about that
Microsoft is working on a new version of Windows RT, which will remove
the desktop functionality from the OS altogether. Desktop was by far the
most perplexing of RT's features, as it
was unable to run any legacy
desktop programs. Instead, it was (officially) usable only for File
Explorer, Internet Explorer, and Office RT (unless one decided to
venture into the land of emulators and jailbreaking). But those could
easily be launched from the Metro (*ahem* a.k.a Modern, a.k.a Microsoft
design language, are we missing any?) interface, so users were confused
by Windows RT's neither-here-nor-there environment.
Last year, we heard Microsoft say that
there won't be three versions of Windows
in the future, which naturally led to the belief that RT may be getting
axed or merged with Windows Phone. According to the new rumors, the
latter may have more truth to it. RT will only work with the Modern
interface now, which will make it resemble Windows Phone more than
Windows 8.1.
So, while nothing is concrete, we could speculate
that Microsoft may be making steps to unify the OS running their phones
and tablets under the same name – much like iOS and Android. Dare we say
– about time?
source:
Myce via
BGR
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