Can you use your existing Windows Apps on the Droid or do I have to find Droid apps like the Window Apps that I already have?
I currently have a Windows Mobile phone, but my contract is up in December and my wife and I like what we see with the Droid, but it will be hard to put down my Tilt... I love the ability to put a Custom Rom on my Tilt. I have heard that this is not possible with a Droid...is this true?
Thanks,
Todd
Nope sorry. Since Android OS is a completely different mobile operating system you cannot use your Windows Mobile apps on android. A lot of the major application manufacturers have gone cross platform so you can likely find a lot of the same, if not similar apps.
if i install windows 8 on my windows 7 will everything be formatted ?
and other apps i install will that work ?
Create a new partition if you want a dual boot, otherwise it will overwrite your data, because currently there is no upgrade function. Most Applications will work in the dev release, but MS is changing Framework, so I am not sure if they will work in the final release!
I've encountered a handful of apps that give me grief on Windows 8, but they're pretty old after all. A few classic games that I own through Steam will install well enough, but are a headache to run.
In all fairness, I had similar trouble in Windows 7 (for some reason, a handful of old games redistributed with DOSbox fail to launch), so it's probably safe to say that anything Windows 7 can handle, Windows 8 can as well. For everything else, there are virtual machines.
josidhe said:
so it's probably safe to say that anything Windows 7 can handle, Windows 8 can as well.
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Not so true
anna0811 said:
if i install windows 8 on my windows 7 will everything be formatted ?
and other apps i install will that work ?
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Try this tutorial on how to dual-boot Windows 7 & 8: How to Dual-Boot Windows 7 and Windows 8 Side By Side
josidhe said:
so it's probably safe to say that anything Windows 7 can handle, Windows 8 can as well. For everything else, there are virtual machines.
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Not so there are a number of applications that will not run on VM ware, especially some of the tools required to work with Android phones.
My recommendation, get or keep an old laptop with Windows XP service pack 3 and your good to go.
Windows really should have everything backward compatible, but it doesn't.....Sigh!
Starburst13 said:
Not so there are a number of applications that will not run on VM ware, especially some of the tools required to work with Android phones.
My recommendation, get or keep an old laptop with Windows XP service pack 3 and your good to go.
Windows really should have everything backward compatible, but it doesn't.....Sigh!
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My understanding is that, with USB pass through in VMs, there are no significant limitations on what you can do with a USB device from within a virtual machine. There are extensive discussions on using tools like adb from a virtualized Ubuntu box, at least.
As for your final comment, you're on a strange side of the fence. It has long been a *criticism* of Microsoft that it struggled for so long to keep Windows backwards compatible, and many--MANY--users have wanted them to throw caution to the wind and "rebuild from scratch" the OS, with such compatibility-breaking demands as "eliminate the registry" and so on.
Android itself barely stumbles through version changes, with countless applications breaking on each new release,, prompting swarms of app updates with nothing on their change logs but "added support for 2.x". To this day there are apps on the market with separate entries for 1.x devices.
So I would expect advanced users to acknowledge that virtualization is the grand middle ground solution, allowing businesses with ancient tools to keep using them while advancing the actual OS without wasted development time.
I definitely wouldn't recommend formatting your current Windows 7 partition and installing Windows 8, as it's still a developer preview. Try creating a new partition and dual-booting, this would also allow you to keep all of your current programs and data on your Windows 7 partition.
I want to Install Windows 8 on my Notebook. Before installing i have a question. Can Windows 7 programs or WP7 app runs on Windows 8?
Almost all Windows 7 applications work in Windows 8's Desktop environment. Some tools that alter the system at low level might have issues. I've currently not run into any problems.
Windows 8 can't run WP7 apps. It only supports Metro Style Applications built atop WinRT. These are similar to the model of WP7 App development but Developers have to port the to the newer system (which makes a lot of sense because blowing up a Smartphone App to a 12"+ Display just isn't all that usable).
hello friends,
9820hd NECVOX my car kia sportage have the device. Operating System Windows CE 6.0 installed. I am not at all satisfied with a system that sucks. Can we do the android operating system. I'm so bored soon smash the device. If you have a friend I'd like to help.
Moved to Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General.
No.
Learn to appreciate Windows Mobile. Install some emulators, nice music player, good navigation software. It's all good, except you have to know what to do with it.
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hello friends,
9820hd NECVOX my car kia sportage have the device. Operating System Windows CE 6.0 installed. I am not at all satisfied with a system that sucks. Can we do the android operating system. I'm so bored soon smash the device. If you have a friend I'd like to help.
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This question already hundreds times asked in multiple forums around the web. Resume: You can' t replace Windows Embedded CE 6.0 by Android, except you know one who provides all the drivers your device needs in Android - then of course you could.
With Windows 10 Mobile apparently being able to run Android apps, is there anyone who has tried (on an insider build) to run the Android wear app and see if it can connect to a watch? I would be surprised if it did, since the deep integration it has with Android, but it would be a good reason to buy one of those new Lumia 950's...
As far I know few android phones are working with IOS but no luck for Windows phone. I hope Android wear will work on Windows phone very soon.