Windows 8 for ARM, also known as Windows RT, does it have the equivalent of the Win32 API?
(I don’t mean if it can run Win32 x86 code, but if it has the Win32 API available to third party developers.)
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Windows 8 for ARM, also known as Windows RT, does it have the equivalent of the Win32 API?
(I don’t mean if it can run Win32 x86 code, but if it has the Win32 API available to third party developers.)
No. Or rather, yes, but not as we knew ye, Win32. A small subset of the Win32 is available for WinRT apps to use, and WinRT apps are the only thing which gets to run on Windows RT. (“Windows 8 for ARM.”)
Third party app developers can access but a fraction of the classic Win32 API.