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Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by throwaway64 on Friday May 11, 2012 @07:49PM (#3962040)
exactly zero windows applications that exist currently will run under metro/winRT, so by extension, windows ARM.
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Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by rbanffy on Friday May 11, 2012 @09:42PM (#3962333)
Oddly enough it seems Firefox is able to JIT on Metro/x86
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Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by makomk on Sunday May 13, 2012 @08:18AM (#3966802)
That's because they're not running under WinRT on x86. Apparently there's a special exemption in the x86 version of Windows 8 which allows the default web browser to provide a Metro interface even though it's still a Win32 application.
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