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Surface RT with windows 10

Anonymous
2020-02-26T16:02:50+00:00

So there hasn't anything official yet so I will ask. When is the surface RT getting the upgrade to windows 10. The 8.1 updates have removed alot of the touchscreen apps i enjoyed from the windows store and also, from the forums over the last couple of years there has been some increased chatter that this might happen.

I know the device is way out of date. But i really dislike the last round of updates which have only caused my hard drive which is already almost full at 32 GB (i have maybe 2-3 GB free for things to run) but I'd prefer to be on something which my desktop is already using and be able to share resources between them faster.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-03-27T00:03:42+00:00

    I can agree with you even from 4 years ago and older from a post I made before:

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/all/to-microsoft/23a16d00-be0f-4b23-a116-e7e0a63f15c2

    (don't mind if it wrote like **** I've been writing like that before, also maybe the link might not work straight so you might need to copy-paste it to access it)

    I believe it still applies thought. But now what? You start to kill off the store and its support also, with your own products? You seriously find this good Microsoft or what? Atleast do something good for once please and unlock the firmware or add some proper support or even allow programs, which were designed for other architectures CPUs (x86 mainly) (which Windows 10 on ARM has that I think) or something properly done for the tablet if you really plan to kill the support for it. I don't believe it's impossible. It's like we wasted money into NOTHING literally and it becomes useless because of bad intentions from your part, while atleast for us it can be a pretty useful piece of device if you'd do something good for it as I said above some good examples, while different people from different forums could do something for it (unofficial support), even after end of its official support. Even althought before we could get good apps and games from the store and it was something, but now the store, even on the Windows 8.1 full itself it's useless as everything almost is no more there unlike it was before, and I don't just get it still why it was killed off that early.

    And one more thing to add, if you find an excuse or as a reason that it could be "unsafe" from 3rd parties or to do for the firmware and such, please don't mind it, it is afterall our device and if we brick it, that's it, we got it with our money afterall. But come think of it, it is better to just stay forever locked into something that you wouldn't be able to do **** for it later and call it "secure" or to unlock it atleast to make something from the tablet?

    Come to an example for a bit also please, even if may sound off-topic: there were many Android phones from different companies that were abandoned, yet atleast they still had unlocked firmware support for them to allow different users to install different ROMs for them unofficially and still were worth it, which can be the same thing with Microsoft and its mobile products if you get your **** together (no offense), despite it might be a different story from the example I gave.

    Well, I REALLY hope someone read it and give it some further opinions or comments for it or EVEN forward it as I hadn't wasted time like nothing writing it and thanks you nonetheless if you read it and even share / forward it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-16T21:22:45+00:00

    I fully agree,Microsoft isn't being fair at all to Microsoft surface Rt users.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-26T17:03:26+00:00

    Microsoft pulled the plug on both the Surface RT and Surface 2 almost 3 years ago and abandoned it.  Right now, it only gets security updates which will end in 2023.

    Windows 10 will never be available for it.  At 32GB, it can't install it even if it could.

    The word has been out on this for quite some time now and should have been on those forums you where on.

    If you have problems with Internet Explorer, in the Store, there is a web browser called "Sidekick" that has been reported to work.  A lot of people keep these things going but Microsoft will not upgrade it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-27T07:44:30+00:00

    Microsoft edge is still not supported by windows RT

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-04-04T13:17:03+00:00

    Concordo in pieno! Hanno creato, pubblicizzato e venduto un prodotto facendo delle promesse di sviluppo e innovazione sulla sicurezza, e non solo, a lungo termine!! Per quando riguarda Windows rt è stato fumo negl'occhi! Sono stato il primo a comprarlo non appena uscito spendendo troppo per l'utilità che ne ha avuto nel tempo! Le cinesate hanno piu utilità nel tempo a minor prezzo! Sbloccate o rilasciate una versione di Windows on ARM compatibile!! Prima o poi lo smonto e cercherò di cambiare fisicamente la Rom per poter mettere almeno Android! Microsoft ha fatto una figura di 💩 con tutti i sui consumatori piu fedeli che mai avrebbero sostituito il marchio Microsoft con altri! Buona giornata!

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