That is definitely possible, and I think it would be awesome.
However, just to be clear, that wouldn't run the merged Phone/RT OS MS is currently working on.
Why not?
From what I understand
-There is Full Windows. It has two components:
1) Modern UI(WinRT)
2) Desktop UI(Win32)
-There is Windows RT. Currently it has two components:
1) Modern UI(WinRT)
2) Desktop UI(Win32 for ARM; locked down)
-There is Windows Phone. Currently it has only one component.
1) Modern UI(WinPRT; since WP8.1)
NO DESKTOP UI
It remains to be seen how Microsoft implements Threshold.
From what I see, Threshold will mean:
-Shared code or subset of a greater code in Modern UI.
- No Desktop UI in Phones and tablets. (According to sources).
It remains to be seen if they completely remove Desktop UI or just disable it. Technically, from what I understand, Desktop UI is an independent component that MS can attach and bundle with anything if they so desire, given the compatible hardware i-e
-Desktop UI(win32)
on Intel X86/64 and atom chipsets.
-Desktop UI(win32 for ARM; currently locked down) on ARM chipsets.
If they could code some sort of universal ModernUI, the possibilities will be endless.
Am I right? Or did I mix things up? Lol.