Enthusiasm windows 8 on ARM: a complicated mess

Is Enthusiasm self-harming with Enthusiasm windows on ARM?

Great news! Enthusiasm has fixed the misunderstandings over whether ARM-based Enthusiasm windows 8 models will run history apps!

Terrible news! It's still going to mistake people!

For those of us who invest an excessive period trouble shooting friends' and relatives' PCs and providing purchasing assistance, Windows plan regarding old Enthusiasm windows applications on ARM - WOA, as Enthusiasm calls it - has just assured us several weeks of puzzled encounters and the odd split as we drop our rag and bellow "YOU CAN'T, OKAY? YOU JUST CAN'T, DAMMIT!" at our grans.

Here's the policy: Enthusiasm windows 8 on ARM - WOA - won't have any old-fashioned Enthusiasm windows products on it, apart from some old-fashioned Enthusiasm windows products, and it won't let you run old Enthusiasm windows applications, apart from some new Enthusiasm windows applications that look like old Enthusiasm windows applications.

Phew. For a instant there I believed it was going to be complicated.

There's no enterprise like WOA business

As Steven Sinofsky describes, WOA is all about Community and Community applications.

However, for specialized factors that some individuals may think of as "we can't be arsed creating a Community edition of Workplace right now", WOA will also involve the conventional Enthusiasm windows Pc so you can run Workplace 15, and only Workplace 15.

WOA might look like Enthusiasm windows and run Workplace like Enthusiasm windows, but it won't run old Enthusiasm windows applications.

I comprehend why Windows done this - as Apple and ARM are different architectures, managing history applications would need virtualisation, which won't help efficiency or power supply, but from a promotion perspective I think it's going to cause needless misunderstandings.

Microsoft says WOA is a individual element like Enthusiasm windows Hosting server or Enthusiasm windows Included. That's real, but individuals don't see models managing those OSes next to the regular PCs in Bob Lewis or PC Community.

I'm saying the interactions with my family members now.

"No, I don't think you should buy that one. Yes, I know it works Workplace. Yes, I know that's the Enthusiasm windows Pc. No, you can't put your old applications on it. No. No, that's a new Workplace, there's - no, that's because there's a LOOK YOU CAN'T, OKAY? YOU JUST CAN'T, DAMMIT!"