*(Opera Mini actually has the engine running the pages on the servers it connects to. The only catch is that there is no way to download Opera Mobile for Windows desktop directly from Opera Mobile download page. We highly recommend Opera Mobile for all Windows tablets. We have tested Opera Mobile on a tablet running Windows 8 (x86) and can confirm that it works very smoothly. There Google Chrome and Opera Coast (released after a long and quiet denial to make a full* browser for iOS) run the Safari WebView also lacking JIT. All-in-all, a must have browser for your Windows tablet. The situation is a lot similar to Apple iOS restrictions. Microsoft isn't directly blocking other web browsers from Windows RT but they're effectively blocking real competition to IE as you can see the challenge the other browser vendors would have to take (already knowing they'd lose the battle). ![]() Mozilla and Google already spoken about this and a web search will give you the news stories. What it says is with the current Windows RT system limitations (APIs) imposed by Microsoft, Opera Software or any other vendor would have to make a browser from scratch that would run slower than Internet Explorer regardless of their efforts because of lack of JIT and other stuff, and even if they use the IE WebView available in the system (which means Trident layout engine) I think it'd result in an even more crippled browser ( see item 1). I know this link explains it a bit too technical but it's easy to understand (Windows 8/ARM = RT):
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