Jailbreak has been released allowing the installation of ARM-compiled applications on the Windows RT desktop:
[Release] RT Jailbreak Tool - xda-developers
[Release] RT Jailbreak Tool - xda-developers
And dollars to donuts this will be patched in the next month by MS.
It would be nice if MS saw the potential for high-end users and just allowed a switch to be flipped to install desktop ARM applications. There'd be a control panel option and the user could be warned that allowing the installation of desktop ARM applications could impact battery life, but the user would have to turn this on manually.
Then, devs could just publish their apps in the Windows Store and everyone would be all the merrier. Oh well...
And dollars to donuts this will be patched in the next month by MS.
So you wait till the month after to update when the newest hack is released. Nothing new.