A new rumor (you know the drill, unsourced, unverified) has bubbled to the surface relating to Windows 8 ARM devices. The scuttlebutt is that Microsoft is planning to allow a restricted desktop ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft could be preparing to unveil a desktop apps restriction for Windows 8 ARM devices. Microsoft could be ...

The latest scuttlebutt from the Verge suggests that tablets and other ARM-based devices running Windows 8 may move beyond the Metro UI to provide some type of desktop interface. Lance Whitney ...

Microsoft’s decision to mix and mash the classic Windows 7 desktop with the brand new Windows Phone-like Metro-style UI of Windows 8 has been controversial since we first saw it. In our tests, we ...

The traditional Windows desktop will not be included on Windows 8 tablets and other devices running on ARM-based processors, according to online reports. Instead, ARM devices will have only the Metro ...

When he was growing up, a dream of Linux pioneer Linus Torvalds was to acquire the Acorn Archimedes, a groundbreaking personal computer with the first ARM RISC chips. But in 1987, Archimedes wasn’t ...

What's the latest word? Is the Win32 environment -- known as the Desktop App -- still part of Windows 8 on ARM? Or isn't it? During the last Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote for Microsoft on ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

Microsoft still isn’t offering a clear answer on whether ARM-based Windows 8 computers will support the classic Windows desktop, but a recent blog post suggests that the company will. The post, on ...