Windows 8 RT

[Richard Kreiss]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On
> Behalf Of Walter Vaughan
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:37 PM
> To: filePro
> Subject: Re: Windows 8 RT
> 
> GCC Consulting wrote:
> 
> >With the announcement of MS tablets running Windows 8 RT and Windows
> 8
> >Pro, will FP run on the ARM based tablet running Windows8 RT?
> >
> I am not speaking for fpTechnologies, but there probably would be the need
> for complete rewrite to run on the ARM platform. RT is not a desktop OS.
> There are no such things as a Metro Console Apps,
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
> us/library/windows/apps/br230302%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
> 
> Metro apps can open and write to a console, but I still think only as a
child
> window. Would need a WPF window as the parent me thinks. I'm still
grepping
> ASP.net stuff and haven't even done a hello world Metro app (Though I have
> run Win8 for a period of time.)

More than likely will have to look at the Surface Pro running an Intel chip
with Windows 8 Pro.  This tablet is probably an ultrabook in another format.
Nice thing, if it is, it won't need to be checked by TSA when going through
security.

Richard