It was only a matter of time: You can now run conventional x86 Desktop apps on your ARM-based Windows RT tablet, such as the Surface RT or Asus VivoTab RT. x86 games such as Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (video below) and small utilities such as WinRAR are confirmed to work on Windows RT, with the developer promising to support uTorrent and some other games in the future.
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I am 13 year old from India and I have surface RT Tablet and it has Windows 8.1 RT and I want Windows 8.1 on it as if I get 8.1 I will be able to get windows 10. I have installed an update by which my start screen looks like windows 10 start screen but I want Cortana, Edge and all windows 10 feature. All, Please find the attached Windows RT native binaries for Halite 0.3.4. Halite is a nice, light weight, torrent client for windows based on. Windows RT, Windows RT 8.0, archiveteam, ARM CPU, ARM tablet. SurfRT80 Addeddate 2014-11-23 01:45:43 Identifier SurfaceRT80201411. TORRENT download. Two days after a revamped version of the VLC Windows 8.1 app went live in the Windows Store, a new update to that app finally adds support for Windows RT. That means owners of the Surface RT.
The tool, which seems to be called Win86Emu, is essentially an x86 emulator or software abstraction layer for Windows RT. If you’ve used DOSBox, or some kind of game console emulator, Win86Emu is very similar: You run Win86Emu, select which x86 app you want to execute, and then — if everything goes to plan — your x86 app will appear. In essence, Win86Emu grabs the API calls made by the x86 app, converts them into the Windows RT equivalent, and then passes them along to the WinRT kernel. (See: Under the hood of Windows 8/RT.) As far as the x86 app is concerned, it’s running on a normal x86 Windows machine.
As with any emulator, though, there are caveats. As long as your x86 app uses the emulator’s supported APIs, you’re fine — but at the moment, Win86Emu only supports a limited subsection of API calls, and some translations from x86 to the WinRT kernel aren’t perfect. As a result, HoMM3 works under the emulator, but it doesn’t have any music. Emulation is a lot slower than native execution, too — and coupled with ARM’s wimpiness compared to the latest x86 silicon, don’t expect your Windows RT tablet to run Crysis.
This hack follows on from last month’s jailbreak of Windows RT, which gives you the ability to run non-Microsoft apps on the Desktop. The original jailbreak has since been turned into an easy-to-use tool that executes every time you log in — and indeed, you need to run the jailbreak before you can use Win86Emu. If you own a Windows RT tablet, XDA-Developers has a nice list of Desktop apps that you can run on jailbroken devices.
When Microsoft told the world that it was splitting Windows 8 into x86 and ARM versions, we made the bold announcement that Intel’s upcoming Atom processors would kill off Windows RT. You see, the only advantage that ARM SoCs currently have over x86 is reduced power consumption — but in the next year or so, Intel will catch up. Coupled with the fact that Microsoft made the crazy decision to lock down Windows RT’s Desktop, and that Windows RT lacks the native ability to run x86 apps (Microsoft could’ve easily included its own emulator), and it’s really rather hard to imagine Windows on ARM beating Windows on x86.
Now that a couple of hackers have jailbroken Windows RT and created an x86 emulator, it will be interesting to see how Microsoft reacts. Microsoft’s claimed reason for locking down Windows RT is stability and reliability — Windows RT is consumer-oriented, and it doesn’t want ma and pa to install jury-rigged x86 apps that will cause their system to crash. Instead of a complete lockdown, though, Microsoft could’ve just buried the switches deep within the Control Panel, so that power users at least have the option of running x86 and Desktop apps on their Windows RT tablet. Who knows: Maybe the locked-down Desktop and lack of x86 emulation is actually the result of an internal, political struggle at Wintel’s hegemonic HQ.
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Reading eBooks on Microsoft Surface RT/Pro (Windows 8) tablets is an important experience for many people, together with office use and diversified forms of entertainments. However, eBooks from different stores are mostly DRM protected and come in different formats, thus we cannot read all eBooks on Surface RT / Pro in a consistent way. This guide will explain how to read eBooks on Surface tablets in different cases.
As we know, Microsoft Surface Pro can run all Windows applications, therefore we can easily read eBooks on Surface Pro (Win 8) with a series of applications like Calibre (64-bit) and Kindle for Win 8. However, there is no Adobe Digital Editions for Windows 8 at the moment (According to an Adobe Stuff, #3 Jeff A Wright) and current ADE 2.0 requires Microsoft .Net 3.5. Fortunately, this problem can be resolved by installing a lowever ADE 1.7 on Surface Pro tablets (click to download). But Surface RT customers are not that lucky due to RT's ARM processor, which only supports ARM-based metro apps instead of traditional Windows ones. As a result, we will mainly discuss how to read eBooks, including DRM protected EPUB and PDF titles on Surface RT tablets.
1. How to read EPUB and PDF books on Surface RT / Pro (Windows 8)
Method 1: Use Metro Reader to read non-DRM EPUB / TXT books
MetroReader is the first reading app designed for Microsoft Surface tablets / Win 8, which well supports EPUB and TXT and offline reading on Surface RT / Pro. Unlike heaps of free reading apps for android, however, MetroReader is not a free one, but sells at $4.49 in Windows store. What’s more, purchased EPUB books, which are mostly DRM-protected, are not supported on this app. Thus if we want to read previously purchased books on Surface tablet, we will have to turn to the second method.
Calibre also supports DRM-free eBook reading. However, this can only be done on Pro version. Although Calibre has offered 5 versions for various platforms (Windows, Windows 64 bit, Mac OS X, Portable and Linux), there is no version especially for Surface RT ARM processor.
Method 2: Use Epubor Ultimate to remove DRM from purchased EPUB / PDF books and read on Surface RT tablets with general reading apps
As I’ve put, nearly all purchased books are DRM protected while MetroReader (including Calibre for Surface Pro) only supports DRM-free EPUB. In all probability, you will associate DRM-protected EPUB / PDF books (exclude Nook books, which will be explained in the next method) with Adobe Digital Editions. Nevertheless, as I have said, this can only be done on MS Surface Pro. There has been no Adobe Digital Editions for Win 8 / RT by far.
You may then think of Kobo reading app for Win 8 / RT or Nook for Win 8 / RT. Well, there is no problem to use Kobo app for reading Kobo books and Nook app for Nook books on Surface RT / Pro. But how about books purchased from other stores which do not provide corresponding reading apps? One case in point is that there is only Sony for win 8 application (desktop version) available, which means there is no problem for Surface Pro holders whereas all RT users have no access to Sony app. Not to mention those smaller eBook stores which offer DRM-protected eBooks but completely rely on other reading apps such as Adobe Digital Editions. Since ADE does not offer RT / Win 8 version at the moment, how can we read DRM protected EPUB / PDF books in a general way, apart from restricted Nook for RT / Win 8 app or Kobo reading app for RT / Win 8?
The solution is to remove DRM from EPUB / PDF books with Epubor Ultimate on your computer firstly. Then transfer DRM-free EPUB / PDF books to Surface RT tablets and read with apps like MetroReader (EPUB only) or Nook / Kobo app.
Guide to remove DRM from EPUB / PDF books for reading on Microsoft Surface RT / Pro tablets
Note that the whole DRM removing job needs to be done on your computer instead of Surface tablets.
#1. Install Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) on your computer and authorize your computer with Adobe ID. Make sure you can read the EPUB / PDF books on Adobe Digital Editions(ADE). That's how the right decryption key is generated to decrypt your books and you can’t skip this step.
#2. Download and install Epubor Ultimate Converter, which enables you to remove DRM from eBooks and convert formats at the same time.
#3. Run Epubor software. Drag and drop your EPUB / PDF books to software and they will be DRM removed at once.
If you want to read eBooks with Metro Reader app (supports EPUB and TXT only), you will have to convert PDF to EPUB. Just select the output format as “EPUB” and then click convert icon.
To get decrypted DRM-free eBooks, click to select the book and click the title link under the book cover on the right hand side. The decrypted EPUB / PDF books will be in front of you at once. Then you can transfer the converted DRM-free EPUB / PDF books to Surface tablets and read.
Method 3: Use Nook / Kobo for Windows 8 / RT reading apps to read eBooks on Surface RT / Pro tablets
We can easily get Nook for Win / RT and Kobo for Win 8 / RT reading app from Windows app store to read Nook and Kobo books on MS Surface tablets. They can also be used to read DRM-free EPUB and PDF books from public domains.
However, there is no such a compatible version for Sony reading app. We can't either read DRM protected eBooks from other stores by using Kobo and Nook apps, as Surface RT tablets actually have no way to get authorized with Adobe ID or verify users' ownership of their eBooks. In this case, we will have to go back to Method 2.
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Method 4: Use Adobe Reader to read PDF books on MS Surface RT / Pro tablets
Frankly, I do not that like reading eBooks in PDF format, which is not as flexible as EPUB or Kindle books. Luckily, Adobe Reader gives us another free way, along with Nook / Kobo reading apps, to read eBooks on Surface tablets with password-protected PDFs supported. It enables readers to quickly open PDF documents, search text, select reading modes, share & email PDFs, draw markups, zoom text & images, use bookmarks & links and the like.
2. How to read Amazon Kindle books on Microsoft Surface RT / Pro (Windows 8)
Reading Kindle books on Surface tablets is much easier.
1 Go to Windows app store and download & install Kindle for Win 8 app on Surface RT / Pro.
2 Register Kindle for Windows 8 with your Amazon account.
3 All your Kindle books will be synced automatically under wifi connection.
For your favorite Kindle books , you can feel free to pin to homescreen.
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Do hope this post will deliver you readers a good understanding of how to read eBooks (Kindle / EPUB / PDF) books on Microsoft Surface RT / Pro (Windows 8) tablets. So what about jailbroken Surface? Well, applications out of Windows store can be installed on jailbroken Surface RT / Pro tablets, which has nothing to do with reading eBooks on Surface, however. Methods mentioned here can also be used on other Windows 8 titles.
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Ada Wang works for Epubor and writes articles for a collection of blogs such as ebookconverter.blogspot.com.