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Bernard is offline Bernard
2012-06-22 , 10:08
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Originally Posted by zwer View Post
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I just find it hilarious for some people to rationalize that with hardware differences - it's not as if the WP7 couldn't run native if allowed to (I'm pretty sure that IE was not written in .NET), it's just that Microsoft can't be bothered with that.
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It could be hardware. If the core of what MS defines as WP8 needs more ram, a bigger flash partition to hold the OS, requires multiple cores, or other hardware for encryption, NFC etc .etc.
Microsoft doesn't allow native code in WP7 because they knew they would switch to NT kernel. Windows CE is very different and doesn't support the same API and libraries as NT.