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it brings up a message saying "This app can't run on your PC" and under it this is the message it has "To find apps for this PC, open the windows store"
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it brings up a message saying "This app can't run on your PC" and under it this is the message it has "To find apps for this PC, open the windows store"
Hello YayaFino,
RT devices can only download Windows updates and apps from the Store. I would suggest you try the Google search app from the Store, it has Google search and 14 other Google apps built in (Gmail, YouTube, Maps, Calendar and many more).
Hi,
Thank you for approaching Microsoft Community for assistance.
I understand that you have issues with downloading Google Chrome.
Google Chrome is available as a desktop application which can be installed only on Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro Operating Systems.
You will not be able to install it on Windows RT devices.
Refer to the link for more information.
http://www.google.co.in/homepage/windows8/
I hope this answered your question. If you have any other issues with Windows, please do post it in Microsoft Community. We would be happy to help you.
Have you asked Apple to make a version of iTunes for RT? Like I keep saying, Microsoft can't make the developers make the apps. But if the company knows there's a demand, they might develop it.
No guarantees, of course, but it never hurts to try. I've added my voice to the many asking VUDU to release an RT app.
And again, DomFriant, if Google can release Chrome as a Safari wrapper (or whatever the iOS browser is these days), then there's nothing stopping them from doing the same on RT. Except that they don't want to.
Which is fine by me, to be honest. I have no doubt that Microsoft mines some marketing and use info for their own purposes, but Google's "big brotherness" is legendary. In this case, Microsoft comes off as the lesser of the two evils.
I thought RT was only used for corporations or small business'........... the other problem I see is that you can't even download ITunes for Windows 8, 8.1....and no one is blaming Google.... my problem is that I have to purchase a second laptop because of this situation.........I mean come on your HTC phones are able to download Google Chrome...... and you had those before you manufactured the Tablet.
This does not answer the question............ why is it that we cannot install Google chrome on Windows 8, 8.1 on your Source RT tablet........ is there a requirement or something missing in this RT. Microsoft should have warned people about this before purchasing the tablet.
To be more specific on what D. Connell said, Google can't release a version of the full Chrome browser for Windows RT because Chrome is a desktop application and Microsoft will only let desktop applications that are digitally signed by Microsoft run on Windows RT (for example, IE and Office RT). The OS actually is perfectly capable of running Chrome (all the regular APIs are present), all Google would have to do is recompile it for the ARM processor. They technically could release such a thing, but it would have a digital signature from Google, not Microsoft, and would be prevented from executing by the OS. Windows 8 has this signing restriction turned off by default.
At best what Google could do is release a store app that is a re-skinned version of Modern IE. What what would be the point?
Everyone needs to quit blaming Google for this... the fault lies entirely on Microsoft. I know this is a forum for Microsoft productions, but please tell it like it is.
On a side note... it would probably be technically possible to port Chromium to jailbroken Windows RT 8.0 if someone with the time and know-how wanted to tackle it.
