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“Your homepage, your rules — the web tidied up, and somehow felt less like home.”
“Ran Office forever on one battery charge, but never got to run anything else.”
Windows RT arrived on October 26, 2012 alongside Windows 8, built for 32-bit ARM chips to squeeze out longer battery life, thinner system-on-chip devices, and a reliably stable experience over time. It came with a version of Office 2013 optimized for ARM preloaded, and it supported a surprisingly generous lineup of existing USB peripherals and accessories. Microsoft even made its own hardware for it — the Surface tab
But it was a walled garden from the start: it could only run software digitally signed by Microsoft, lacked certain developer-oriented features, and was never sold as standalone software — only preloaded on specially designed devices. Just five third-party OEM models ran Windows RT in its entire lifetime. It was discontinued on September 25, 2013, less than a year after launch, leaving behind a brief but fondly remem
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“Your homepage, your rules — the web tidied up, and somehow felt less like home.”
“It held the door open to the web for millions, then politely showed itself out.”
“Thinner, lighter, and gone before we got tired of looking at it”