AW: Windows RT

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Mark,
confusingly the surface 2 has an ARM processor (with Windows 8.1 RT) and the
surface 3 has an intel processor (with Windows 8.1) So my LC App doesn't
even start on the surface 2.
I will think about the spec "Intel", though I am not sure if the standard
dummy customer knows or cares  anything about processor specs.
Btw. I never again specify "... or later" since Apple changed his directory
specs and rights in 10.7 and my product wasn't compatible anymore. The times
"Macs are always compatible" is history for me.
Tiemo


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im
Auftrag
> von Mark Schonewille
> Gesendet: Freitag, 7. November 2014 10:12
> An: How to use LiveCode
> Betreff: Re: Windows RT
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please define "compatible". Does your customer say it doesn't even start
up?
> Or does he say he it starts up but he can't work with it? What happens if
he
> attaches a mouse and a keyboard to his device?
> 
> AFAIK the MS Surface Pro 2 and Pro 3 have standard, yet slow, Intel
> processors, which run normal versions of Windows Pro. This processor is
also
> used in cheap netbooks. This tablet should be able to run LiveCode
standalones
> --but I haven't tried it.
> 
> Tablets with Windows RT use an ARM processor, which is incompatible with
> LiveCode, meaning that a standalone won't even start.
> 
> You gave your customer correct information: Livecode runs on Windows
tablets,
> but you didn't tell him that it doesn't run on Windows RT tablets. Just
tell
> your customers that Windows tablets must have an Intel processor.
> 
> Currently, LiveCode runs on:
> - Apple computers with Mac OS X 10.6 or later
> - Almost any other Mac (depending on your version of LiveCode)
> - Windows computers and tablets with Intel processors (the minimum
required
> version for Windows seems to be XP SP2)
> - Raspberry Pi (with ARM processor)
> - Android (with ARM processor)
> - iPhone 3 and iPad, using iOS 4 and later.
> (I'm not sure if iOS 3 will work).
> 
> Usually, in these cases I tell my customers: try it and let me know if it
> works :-)
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Mark Schonewille
> 
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> On 11/7/2014 09:20, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> > A customer asked me, if my desktop product would also run on tablets.
> > I told him yes, if it is a tablet with Microsoft Windows system. He
> > bought a surface 2 exclusively for my product (with Windows 8.1 RT)
> > and now complains me, that he wasted his money for the tablet because
> > my product isn't compatible with Microsoft Windows 8.1 RT.
> >
> > I have defined my system requirements, but I think I can't defined all
> > NOTs, not for Windows RT, not for UNIX, not for Blackberry, not for .
> > On the other hand it really isn't easy to differentiate all these
> > specs for a non computer addicted customer.
> >
> > How do you handle these issues in your commercial products?
> >
> > Tiemo
> >
> 
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