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Here's some delightful naming from Microsoft:
WinRT is the new runtime which Metro apps run on. It's sort of .NET, but not quite. Subset here, superset there, different requirements and limitations. You can't write .NET apps for Metro, and there's no .NET API for it... but your app may run on WinRT with little or no modifications, and you can write C# for WinRT.
WinRT is, of course, nothing to do with Windows RT. Although WinRT apps can run on Windows RT. Wheee!!!
This would be an example of the insanity introduced with Windows 8 - you can't submit an XNA game to the Windows 8 app store, because XNA requires .NET, and you can't submit .NET apps (only Metro-aware WinRT apps). And there's no official port of XNA to WinRT, and real XNA uses namespaces not permitted in WinRT so you can't do that either. So as it stands, the only way to write an XNA game and sell it on Windows 8 is to port it to WinRT, and the new WinRT port of MonoGame (FOSS implementation of XNA). There are MonoGame games in the Windows 8 app store, but no XNA ones. Wheeee!!! Oh, and once again, your WinRT games may run on Windows RT, but also may not.
Agent (06-08-2012)
This is far clearer:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33642_7...rt-anyway-faq/
But yes, it's confusing.
Completely agree, same here. I have to use Apples for work, but I hate them - slow expensive and completely unreliable. My windows machine at home puts them to shame for a fraction of the cost, but I would much rather be running a decent linux distro instead. Surely it's coming... more and more people seem to be using Linux these days as they realise it's not necessarily the set-up horror it once was for non-specialists.
Bit of a noob question but here goes: on windows 8 pro will it still be possible to run steam and download games from it? If it is then I don't care at all about this stuff. It's just going to be difficult for people to publish games on the marketplace?
Yes but apple allows for steam to exist outside its app store platform (currently) microsoft is seemingly seeking a total lockout on the metro apis. This could put steam at a distinct disadvantage in terms of usability in windows 8. Honestly though i have no idea how microsoft thinks they are going to get this through the EU competition courts who love bashing american tech monopolies (no complaints from me they need bashing but so do some european companies). Regardless of this though a third desktop/laptop environment would be great but i prefer the google/old microsoft level playing field model to the iphone/new microsoft model.
nibbler (09-08-2012)
8 will run any program you like - and it's possible to sideload metro apps outside of the store anyway with a simple command line. The Win RT platform is more like iOS - it's far more restrictive - but the Win 8 desktop platform is not. Seeing as iOS has alternate stores I don't see why the same won't happen for Windows RT with or without MS' blessing. If you're on the desktop then you can quite happily "not care about this stuff" especially if you're not interested in using metro apps anyway. Steam installs and works just fine.
nibbler (09-08-2012)
So Michael Larabel was right when he reported this earlier in the year. Is it safe to say that Gabe's support for Linux is a consequence of him hating Windows 8?
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