Fri Jul 15, 2016 9:33 pm Post
Sat Jul 16, 2016 8:43 am Post
Loretta Green wrote:Just a quick question, if I were to buy a windows phone running windows 8.1, would the windows version of scrivener work on it? I really would like to buy an IPhone and use the new IOS version but, I am on disability and cannot afford such a luxury. Just wondering if I might have a chance to get scrivener to work on a cheaper phone. Also, is a new version of scrivener for windows due out any time soon? Scrivener3?
thanks,
Loretta
Sun Jul 17, 2016 3:55 am Post
beninoz wrote:There is speculation over the next Windows phone. At the moment, Nokia make the Windows phones under licence, this is ending. There is a new phone in the wind for early next year. It's tentatively called, Surface Phone. Microsoft is aiming to get full cross-platform functionality. This means they are trying to get Windows software to work on all their devices. This is why they dropped RT versions from their Surface range.
Sun Jul 17, 2016 3:55 am Post
Loretta Green wrote:Just a quick question, if I were to buy a windows phone running windows 8.1, would the windows version of scrivener work on it? I really would like to buy an IPhone and use the new IOS version but, I am on disability and cannot afford such a luxury. Just wondering if I might have a chance to get scrivener to work on a cheaper phone. Also, is a new version of scrivener for windows due out any time soon? Scrivener3?
thanks,
Loretta
Sun Jul 17, 2016 4:07 am Post
devinganger wrote: However, this isn't *BINARY* level compatibility -- the code still needs to be compiled for the target architecture. Last I knew, smartphones weren't using Intel processors that were binary-compatible with Intel desktop x86/x64 processors.
Sun Jul 17, 2016 5:30 am Post
devinganger wrote:beninoz wrote:There is speculation over the next Windows phone. At the moment, Nokia make the Windows phones under licence, this is ending. There is a new phone in the wind for early next year. It's tentatively called, Surface Phone. Microsoft is aiming to get full cross-platform functionality. This means they are trying to get Windows software to work on all their devices. This is why they dropped RT versions from their Surface range.
There are a few bits of misinformation here.
1) Nokia was purchased by Microsoft a while back. The Lumia phones made from that point are just Lumia, not Nokia Lumia.
2) Microsoft announced that they were no longer focusing on Windows phone devices. However, they also said they are not ending them.
3) Any speculation about Surface Phone is just that, speculation. There is no announcement of such a device, certainly no announcement for a release date.
4) RT was an experiment in allowing modern Windows frameworks to be compiled for non-Intel architectures to hit the low end of the target market, by not including all the legacy x86/x64 cruft from previous versions of Windows that was compiled for Intel architectures. It got dropped because it didn't sell -- more people wanted legacy compatibility than Microsoft estimated.
5) Full cross-platform functionality is not the goal of the Windows 10 universal app. It IS about getting the majority of the behind-the-scenes code the same, so folks writing code for Windows devices only need to handle UI and other small pieces of functionality. However, this isn't *BINARY* level compatibility -- the code still needs to be compiled for the target architecture. Last I knew, smartphones weren't using Intel processors that were binary-compatible with Intel desktop x86/x64 processors.
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