The recent introduction of Windows 10 Technical Preview has made many pundits wonder about the future of Microsoft’s Windows RT, an inexpensive, low-power version of Windows 8 designed to run on the ...

One of the most striking reversals over the past three years has been Microsoft's embrace and subsequent backpedal from the ARM ecosystem. In 2012, when Microsoft first demonstrated Windows on ARM ...

In June 2012 in front of an audience of journalists, Microsoft's then-CEO Steve Ballmer was in philosophical mode, pondering how important hardware was to Microsoft, a company best known for its ...

Windows RT is a touch-friendly, battery-sipping version of Windows for the ARM processor architecture. It’s built on the same Windows “core” as Windows for x86/64 hardware, though the kernel was ...

In 1993, Microsoft introduced Windows NT. Unlike Windows 3.1–and, later, Windows 95 and 98–it could run on processors made by companies other than Intel or AMD. Windows NT supported several chips that ...

Ah, Vegas. It’s the place where dreams are realized, and hearts are shattered. As such, probably no more appropriate venue exists to showcase the massive gamble that is Windows RT, Microsoft’s first ...

Running traditional desktop apps on Windows RT may be one step closer to reality, thanks to a vulnerability that a hacker claims lets you run any desktop app on the ARM version of Windows. A hacker ...

Face it, true Microsoft believers: it's just not that easy to explain Microsoft's "sort-of" version of Windows 8 known as Windows RT. But fear not: Just because Redmond doesn't want you calling it ...

The operating system that no one wants appears to be in its final legs: Windows RT won’t be upgraded to Windows 10. Microsoft says it will upgrade RT, but without many Windows 10 features. Don’t ...

We're at day six in the ongoing Windows/RT 8.1 upgrade debacle, and many of the problems aren't going away Six days after the free Windows 8.1/Windows RT 8.1 updates were released, Microsoft still ...