Wine and Windows RT: What's the point? | Linux Today

Wine and Windows RT: What’s the point?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 15, 2013

As I was looking at today’s open source news, I ran across an announcement about Linux 3.11’s features. At the bottom of the list there was a blurb about Wine being able to run Windows RT apps.

Huh?

Is it me or is this just a huge waste of developer time? Windows RT devices aren’t selling well at all, it seems to be yet another gigantic bomb from Microsoft. So why waste the time and effort to support it in the first place?

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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