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Hi,
I have recently bought a Lumia 2520 tab that works on Windows RT 8.1.
I wanted to know if this Windows RT can be upgraded to Windows 10. If yes, then it would be really great. Else I will have regret for buying an operating system that has no future.
Hoping for your quick feedback.
Thank you.
Shiva
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The N3530 is a full low performance Pentium System-on-a-Chip Quad core x86 processor, it is not ARM (which is its own architecture) and replaces Atom (also x86)
You had full Windows 8 on your computer NOT RT and as such technically can go up to Windows 10. That does not mean that Dell or even Intel supports such a move but the upgrade program tended to ignore such restrictions.
but now that we know that they just integrated the rt's ability for arm cpu's into the full windows 10 O, couldn't you say that we should be able to get windows 10 on the older rt devices?
Not quite sure what you mean by "integrated the rt's ability for arm cpu's into the full windows 10 " as they are completely different code sets. Nothing that natively runs on ARM will run on x86 just as much as the other way round.
You can make them both capable of running the same applications which is the ethos behind Universal Apps but the operating system itself has to by definition be written for the processor it is intended to run on.
What makes Microsoft's attitude for RT less comprehensible is that there is an ARM build in existence i.e. the Phone build. Not only that but there is also a build for the Raspberry Pi albeit with limited functionality.
It is difficult to see Microsoft taking on Android given its price point, if a buyer is only willing to pay peanuts they have to put up with simian software. In its 1st iteration RT was an iPad beater and as such a much more viable target, they gave up far too easily. Not only that but they end up developing for iOS, incomprehensible!
funny since they showed a demo of them running full x86 apps on a 950 with a arm architecture coming from the snapdragon 820...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_GlGglbu1U
still waiting on an upgrade to 8.1 RT What"s up?
