Surface Dogged by Low Sales, High Returns

Re:Surface Dogged by Low Sales, High Returns by bentcorner on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:07PM (#5146681)

My speculation is that MSFT couldn't get all of the desktopy things to the non-desktopy world, and had to compromise by leaving things (like setting up a pptp connection) to the old control panel. My guess is that by the next release we'll see the desktop deprecated on RT devices.

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Re:Surface Dogged by Low Sales, High Returns by h_r on Saturday February 02, 2013 @03:00PM (#5157110)

According to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/10/29/f... on p.36, ipc between apps is blocked for Win 8 Store apps. If this is required by an application, you have to run it in the desktop. Deprecating the desktop won't be simple if such ipc is integral to how the applications function.

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Re:Surface Dogged by Low Sales, High Returns by guessWhy on Thursday January 31, 2013 @05:26PM (#5147890)

No, the desktop is needed to run Microsoft Office.

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