Having dumped (unceremoniously) most legacy support, it runs better, with a smaller footprint, and is more secure.
While we can't say we're surprised, knowing that Microsoft hadn't mentioned legacy support before, the news no doubt dampens the enthusiasm for developers who now need to wait for a wave of new devices before they can join the freemium app gold rush.
In their understanding the fact that these so-called legacy applications support the operations of billions of dollars of profitable business is completely missed.
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The industry pioneer has decided the OS has a lot of promise for tablets, where the touch interface and legacy Windows support could provide the best of both worlds.
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Successful applicants will be expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs, but limited help for certain volunteers will be available through the Legacy 2014 Volunteer Support Programme.
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If you do consider the Yoga, keep in mind that the 11-inch Yoga is a very different beast: it has an ARM processor and runs Windows RT, which does not support legacy Windows apps.
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The Wii U takes content confinement a step further with its support for legacy software, providing a near-perfect example of the folly of Nintendo's content ownership philosophy: the isolated sandbox of its backwards-compatible Wii Menu.
Acer corporate customers in the U.S. and Canada can be assured the Acer Iconia W510P with Windows 8 Pro will support their legacy Windows programs as well as provide the security and authentication they need through the option of TPM (Trusted Platform Module).
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They also failed to note that the F-35 management system was designed to track all costs associated with operations and support, whereas legacy aircraft lacked comprehensive accounting systems.
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In an effort to modernize its citizen services and to consolidate legacy systems that had been developed over the years to support them, the city embarked on an initiative to develop a modern citizen services platform (CSP) with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
If Netanyahu appoints Natan Sharansky foreign minister and Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon defense minister, he will have the top-level support he needs to overcome his predecessors' legacy and change the nature of contemporary discourse on the Palestinians and on Israel's strategic significance to the West in the face of staunch opposition from Washington.
Yet for all his support of research, Rathmann's most important legacy to biotech is financial.
One of the buzzwords of London 2012 has been "legacy" and just as the venues and the sports they support are hoping to inspire a generation to come, so the technology will have life beyond 2012.
NOW, along with the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee, has been urging people to call Paterson to voice their support for a female senator.
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We need to do more to support them to avoid the risk of damaging the infrastructure which will provide this legacy.
The end result has been incessant chatter about buying and building EHR, with no thought about how those systems interact with legacy technologies, how they could be used to create better patient outcomes and whether they support collaboration and new workflows.
The legacy of Chavez will remain because it has established an authoritarian structure in his own country and broad support abroad.
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With regard to the price of alternative modernization strategies, it already costs more each year to sustain the legacy fleet of tactical aircraft the F-35 will replace than the highest official projection of F-35 annual support costs.
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