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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
Depends on how you look at it, I guess. RT is really the Metro (though MS now hates that word for some reason) part (frontend?) of full Win 8. It's Win 8 minus the desktop.
So I guess it depends on whether you see Metro as something added to the OS, or a part of it.
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Pretty much.
Another way to put it is that Windows has a core section devoted to plumbing, a section that runs x86 Windows Apps (roughly equivalent to Windows7) and a *new* section that runs new ("don't call it Metro or we get sued in Germany") Apps.
Windows RT has all the core plumbing of full Windows and the New Section but not the x86 section. The Developer Tools for the New Apps *automatically* generate both x86 and ARM versions of the New Windows Apps. Give it a while and most *new* apps that run on x86 Windows will be running on RT.
This is *not* new.
Windows has *always* had other built-in "sections" for running other types of Applications; DOS, POSIX, Win16, Win32, dot.Net, etc...
Similarly, MS has already changed the GUI on Windows no less than 4 times.
And every time a portion of the customer base throws tantrums, screams, and curses at the "clearly inferior" new GUI.
Eventually they adapt and discover that the new GUI isn't all that bad and has its uses and a few years later when MS evolves the GUI again they start cursing the new GUI...
