googles. Apparently I had Win8RT confused with WinPhone. WIn8RT allows you to sideload freely. WinPhone requires you get a (free) developer's a account, but still has tight restrictions.
Apparently I had Win8RT confused with WinPhone. WIn8RT allows you to sideload freely. WinPhone requires you get a (free) developer's a account, but still has tight restrictions.
Windows RT does not allow you to sideload freely. Nor does WinRT, which is not an operating system, but a runtime environment.
You can sideload apps that you compile with a developer certificate, which is provided with a free copy of Visual Studio Express, but expires periodically. Corporations can sideload apps permanently if they have purchased sideloading licenses.
But there is no general ability to sideload, as a regular user who knows nothing about compilers.
Of course, this is just the RT environment. Windows 8 on x86 still has a desktop environment that is not locked down at all.
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googles. Apparently I had Win8RT confused with WinPhone. WIn8RT allows you to sideload freely. WinPhone requires you get a (free) developer's a account, but still has tight restrictions.
... now I want to see phones running Win8RT.
Windows RT does not allow you to sideload freely. Nor does WinRT, which is not an operating system, but a runtime environment.
You can sideload apps that you compile with a developer certificate, which is provided with a free copy of Visual Studio Express, but expires periodically. Corporations can sideload apps permanently if they have purchased sideloading licenses.
But there is no general ability to sideload, as a regular user who knows nothing about compilers.
Of course, this is just the RT environment. Windows 8 on x86 still has a desktop environment that is not locked down at all.