If you have a tablet with Windows RT, a surprise may come soon
Windows RT was the project released by Microsoft that brought to computers that mounted ARM-based processors a normal adapted version of the operating system and that at that time other devices originally appeared, such as the Microsoft Surface 2… but that was it."
And despite being designed to work on devices with ARM-based processors, Windows RT has not been heard from againand there are smartphone models on the market with ARM-based processors that could well have continued to serve as support.
From Microsoft they left the project in the pipeline and the bet was clear for Windows 10, so equipment like the aforementioned Microsoft Surface 2 or the tablets that mainly used this version, were left to their own devices … at least that's how it seemed until recently, because the user community may be behind a project that rescues these tablets from the forgot
Windows RT can see a new dawn…
And it seems that we may be very close to seeing the arrival of a version of Windows 10 capable of running on _smartphones_ and tablets with processors based on ARM that would not come from Microsoft itself, but from an independent developer called black_blob, who is working on a Windows 10 _port_ for computers that use Windows RT.
The news has appeared in a fundamental information source such as XDA Developers (how many news and improvements on Android or Windows Phone they have given us) and although for now we do not have many more details about it, everything points to to black_blob's words that it is possible to load this system thanks to a discovered exploit at boot so that it might be possible to run Windows 10 on the Surface 2 or ARM-based systems.
This would open the door not only to Windows 10, but also to other systems being developed (people in the forums are already talking about Windows 8.1 or Android) and in the same way this movementI would have Redmond discover what the security hole is that allows this modification so that with a security patch they would block it
Nevertheless, this type of movementputs on the table the importance of the user community today (there we have, without going any further, the glorious past of the _jailbreak in iOS or the ROMs in Android) and As on many occasions in which, for one reason or another, companies turn their backs, they are there to try to provide the denied support.
Via | Neowin In Xataka | Windows RT is dead. Long live Windows.
