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Originally Posted by stonetools
With the ARM Surface, there is at this point no Surface App Store. There is a Windows Phone app store, but we don't know that Windows Phone apps can run gracefully or even at all on the Surface.
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ah but we do from the Win Phone 8 Developers conference talk yesterday
WinPhone 8 Win RT and Windows 8 all sharde the same basic kernel. drivers that work in WP8 will work in rt will work on Win 8. well here
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/w...ode-nt-kernel/ and here
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...s_phone_8.html or here
http://www.extremetech.com/computing...them-all?print
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Yesterday, at the Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft announced that Windows Phone 8 would drop its CE kernel in favor of Windows 8′s NT kernel. For all intents and purposes, Windows Phone 8 will be a version of Windows 8 that has been tailored to fit smaller displays. Windows Phone 8 will gain Windows 8′s resizable-live tile Start Screen. The networking and multimedia code will be the same across both operating systems. Windows 8′s performance, power usage, and memory footprint has been improved significantly so that it works well on tablets and ARM devices — and all of those changes will make the jump to Windows Phone 8.
Most importantly, though, Windows Phone 8 will support native code — and apps programmed for Windows 8 will work on Windows Phone 8. In most cases, porting an app will be as simple as flipping a switch in in Visual Studio. Windows Phone 8 will support the desktop version of DirectX and share common graphics drivers, meaning it will be a lot easier to port games to the phone. In theory, Windows Phone 8 might one day run Crysis. Native code support means it’ll be easier to port complex iOS and Android apps to Windows Phone, too.
With the Windows 8 NT kernel, Windows Phone 8 will support up to 64 cores (though to start with, Microsoft is optimizing WP8 for the dual-core Snapdragon S4 Krait SoC).
A bunch of Windows 8 apps and services will also hop over to Windows Phone 8: BitLocker full disk encryption, UEFI secure boot [2], and full fat Internet Explorer 10 [3] and Microsoft Office will work on WP8. With IE10, WP8 gains malware and phishing protection via SmartScreen. IE10′s Chakra JavaScript engine, running on Windows Phone 8, is 20% faster than the Galaxy S3′s stock browser. Web app developers will be able to write once to target desktop IE10 (on desktops, laptops, and tablets), and be assured that it will run on Windows Phone 8 smartphones.
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and the RT Surface devices will come stock with an RT version of Office