>The real kicker is this: it turns out that many of the programs will run, but only with drivers provided by MS. And MS will provide them only if the app is sold through the Windows store. From Sinofsky's blog:
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>Code that uses only system or OS services from WinRT can be used within an app and distributed through the Windows Store for both WOA and x86/64. Consumers obtain all software, including device drivers, through the Windows Store and Microsoft Update or Windows Update.
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>This, of course, makes a WOA tablet less interesting. But can you imagine being at the meeting mulling this decision, and standing up for user experience, regardless of what looks like a profit opportunity? There go your "focused on goals" and "good team member" ratings, or whatever categories on which one would be skewered.
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>Nothing wrong with a profit. There's something drastically wrong with lacking the creativity to give a first-class user experience and make a profit, and something very sad about grownups not realizing that without a first-class user experience, there will be fewer profits.
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>Hank

I'm not sure I read your reply here correctly, relative to "many of the programs will run".

For Windows 8 running on an ARM device, the only desktop mode apps that will run are the few native OS accessories like File Explorer, Task Manager, etc. that are included - plus, a special (likely limited) version of Office 15. That's all for desktop mode. Then there are Metro (WinRT) based apps in that layer that will run on all Windows 8 machines (the square colored DOS-like UI), and the only apps in the Win8 marketplace store will be Metro apps (no desktop apps for ARM or Intel machines).