Microsoft Surface 2 stock runs out, is it being discontinued?

[HEXUS]

Windows RT didn't get much attention during the recent Windows 10 announcements.

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[TheAnimus]

*cough* http://www.windowscentral.com/window...res-windows-10

So it is getting some form of update, the question is, will this be like Windows Phone 7.8 was to Windows Phone 8?

Myself, I really liked the windows RT platform. Fast, cheap, good battery life. Still the only tablet I have with a 10 hour battery life that can reliably browse the web.

[Jowsey]

It looks like they're trying to off RT! I've never used it so I can't really comment.

Shouldn't they just replace these RT devices with Intel Bay-trail basic windows 8 devices, and save the low power i5's and i7's for Surface Pro X series, to pull in the professionals?

I would be tempted if Microsoft through it's hat into that ring, as long as the device was off a sufficient quality. I don't want a £99 device. I would like something around £250 ish, with a FHD ( 7 or 10 inch ) screen, micro sd and micro or mini hdmi out (would settle for DP of some kind), decent but not earth shaking performance and decent build quality.

[Satyapal]

It can be the best...but no stock
Thats not a solution.

[Brewster0101]

Never RT either. But I do have an Asus T100 and cheapie Linx 7" and they both run very very well. Even the 1GB ram Linx chugs along nicely on office and web browsing. Handles HD just fine too.

Think RT was an idea to embrace different CPU's / Instruction sets that are no longer revelant as Intel has done a good job with the latest Atoms.

[crossy]

It's going to be interesting to see how Windows RT device users are handled by Microsoft. Are they at a dead end, to suffer the same fate as Windows Phone 7.X owners?

I'd take this news to be exactly that. And given that RT was MS's approach to supporting ARM devices, I've got to wonder (black helicopter mode on) whether perhaps Intel has had a quiet word about dropping support for "lesser" chipsets.

Kind of a shame because I've yet to hear any serious complaints from RT-totting folks. What complaints there are seem to be niggling ones, like a particular website not working with InternetExplorerRT but working fine with Windows7's IE.

Got one for my missus - a Nokia 2520 - and she seems pretty happy with it. Certainly if it was doing anything to annoy her then I'd hear about it pretty sharpish (she has about a 3 second tolerance for misbehaving tech).

What would be ideal would be if MS was to launch "proper" Windows10 for ARM, but I really don't think that likely - they're too tied up with x86.

Still, putting things in perspective, it will likely be better support than some buyers of even brand new design Android OS packing tablets get.

No need to be coy, we all know you mean Samsung... (Says the guy who's seriously considering getting an OS for two Note tablets from XDA since Sammy dropped them in favour of "this year's model").

[iamlorro]

I'd take this news to be exactly that. And given that RT was MS's approach to supporting ARM devices, I've got to wonder (black helicopter mode on) whether perhaps Intel has had a quiet word about dropping support for "lesser" chipsets.

Or ARM chips are going to be powerful enough to run full windows 10?

[crossy]

Or ARM chips are going to be powerful enough to run full windows 10?

I think you're misunderstanding me, let me explain.

At the moment if you're building a Microsoft tablet you have a choice of Windows10-on-x86 or WindowsRT-on-ARM. From that it's pretty obvious that dropping RT means you're forced to go and see AMD or Intel for your processors.

Oh, and personally I'm pretty sure that ARM chips are powerful enough to run full Windows10 on a tablet, but there's been a lot of column inches about RT saying that porting '10 to ARM just isn't feasible commercially.