I don't want to run desktop apps on a tablet. It's just stupid. Give me RT with it's long battery life any day.
Lol. But Windows RT does have desktop apps that you are clinging to like Word, Excel, Outlook, File explorer, CMD etc. Why?
Because Windows RT needs the desktop to function as an OS. In WinRT 9 they wont "remove it", they will hide it away but still use it for the things that require legit power rather than sandboxed "app" power.
The problem with Windows RT diehards saying "an app store in enough" dont release that Windows 8.1 has that very same app store + the biggest PROGRAM (real software) store of any platform (bigger than Android, iOS, OSX and Linux) called Win32.
Why have WinRT apps when you could have WinRT apps AND Win32 programs? For 2-3 extra hours of battery life? Are you actually using your tablet for 10 hours every day? If you are then god help you but the reality is that you proably use it for 5 hours a day or maybe less. So that difference in battery life is just pure marketing hype, as it always is.
Why do people want full windows on tablets is beyond me. I mean yes, for now, while windows store isn't as mature. But seriously. Reading, media, web browsing, social networking, casual gaming can all be done through modern apps. That leaves productivity software. But for that, you may need PCs or really good keyboard accessories. Office is already making a move to touch version. Adobe's creative suite will make more sense on touch. Same goes for every other designing software. If those programs make fully featured modern(windows store) apps, will we need full windows anymore? Apart from heavy gaming or resource intensive software?
Office for touch will be terrible compared to Office for Win32. Next.
Adobe CC is not available for the Windows store, unless you think Photoshop express is as powerful as Photoshop CC. Next.
Autodesk is not available for the Windows store. Neither is Lightroom, Fireworks, Visual studio, Chrome, Firefox, Audacity, Fraps, Steam, VMware, and so on. And they never will be. Sandboxing these apps into the Windows runtime will mean they will lose all the functionality they have and it will turn them into apps instead of programs people use every day for work.
So yes, we do and always will need Win32. "Full windows" as you call it. Because Windows runtime and Windows RT are built upon Win32. We don't need Windows runtime at all but its nice to have as an addition to Win32 software. Deciding to make an OS that can only run Windows Runtime apps instead of the millions of programs software developers have been working on since XP and earlier was the stupidest idea ever. *
* I didnt say vista because vista was amazing, and anyone who says otherwise is deluded as f***