In addition to Shawn's advice, if you could install Windows on the Fire, its storage capacity would be eaten up faster than you can say "WTF?"
Win 10 and Fire Tablet (7th Generation)
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My Fire tablet 8 (7th Generation) is recognized by Win 10. This brings up the idea of actually installing Win 10 on the Fire. Has anyone ever ventured this way? I wouldn't want to make the Fire tablet into a brick. It also seems a better 8.1 RT port, but where can I get a copy of RT?
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Anonymous
2018-03-31T14:11:18+00:00 -
@CmdrKeene 90,621 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2018-03-31T14:08:39+00:00 This is not possible -- the Fire Tablet runs Android operating system, and the company that built it does not supply drivers for the system chipset hardware to make the Windows 10 OS run on it.
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Anonymous
2018-03-31T16:03:19+00:00 In addition to Shawn's advice, if you could install Windows on the Fire, its storage capacity would be eaten up faster than you can say "WTF?" Allow me to expand the topic a bit. Most RT devices will easily become Android devices. The 8 & 10 inch tablets are Android devices with significant modifications.
My interest is because the Fire OS/Android OS has an excellent CPU and is a true quad core making it significantly faster on a better OS. Both offer additional storage with a micro SD card and have a basic 32 gb storage with 2 gigs of memory. It is sold close to manufacturing/marketing cost due to the modified Android 4 and even Lollipop.
The thing is Microsoft has finally gotten it right with Win 10. In my opinion Win 10 is better than then the alternatives. I even like Win RT albeit a stop gap OS to get Win in the wild.
So no one here has tried to port RT or 10? It is easy to port an alternative OS to any Windows machine the Mac OS because it is UNIX based and the Kernel is a stumbling block.
My concern is not to brick the device because of the nature of the Kernel in my Android machines.
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Anonymous
2018-03-31T16:07:36+00:00 My interest is because the Fire OS/Android OS has an excellent CPU and is a true quad core making it significantly faster on a better OS. Both offer additional storage with a micro SD card and have a basic 32 gb storage with 2 gigs of memory. It is sold close to manufacturing/marketing cost due to the modified Android 4 and even Lollipop.
Please reread my advice about storage space. 32GB will never be enough space to sustain a Windows installation. The Micro SD card won't help. I too have a 32GB Fire tablet and I wouldn't dream of trying to install Windows on it.
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Anonymous
2018-04-21T01:03:50+00:00 You can download 8.1 images for rt, look around. Nothing about RT has been killed off
To mess with the Fire take a look at xda