You can only install apps from the Windows Store. RT is discontinued, no further
development will be done and Google will not make a version that runs on RT.
Regular Windows programs do not run on RT.
App cannot be run on Surface RT Windows RT 8.1
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I have recently gotten a Surface RT. This guys has Windows RT 8.1 and 32GB storage. Since IE is old stuff, I tried to download Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, in addition to that Windows 10. However I couldn't make it because an error message saying "This app can't run on your PC" is shown. How can I fix this problem? I just wanted to do web browsing on this surface meaning that I will not do any complicated activity.
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Anonymous
2020-11-03T17:37:14+00:00 If the RT is discontinued, so we can't get a system update or new apps for this platform, right?
Only apps from the Windows Store that are compiled for Windows RT - and since RT
is discontinued, no one is authoring apps for RT. There MAY be security updates
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Anonymous
2020-11-03T16:49:10+00:00 Hi Barb,
If the RT is discontinued, so we can't get a system update or new apps for this platform, right?
I was using it just for Netflix, but now it's not working neither.
So sad we can't continue using an electronic that was expensive.
No good from Microsoft.
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Anonymous
2020-10-28T13:08:37+00:00 Hi Barb, Thank you for your prompt feeback. I totally understand.
Appreciate much!