Microsot Hacker Gets Windows 95 to Run on Windows RT

[vissha]

A security expert has already managed to bypass Microsoft’s restrictions to find a way to run unsigned desktop apps on Windows RT, so the jailbreak community has started work on developing new ways to make the most of this exploit.

XDA Forums user Netham45 has ported several apps to Windows RT, including PuTTy, TightVNC and BOCHS which, in their turn, allowed him to set up a virtual copy of Windows 95.

As you can figure out from the long forum thread, modifying software to run on Windows RT involves a lot of work and that’s reassuring for Microsoft, as the company has already confirmed the exploit.

The software firm says that only the most advanced users would try to do this, but admitted that a fix to block future attempts may be released at some point.

Source: Softpedia

[digimon]

for now it may be hard to do but in time there will be better methods devloped etc you cant keep the devices locked down

[Q Can Fix IT]

Windows 95 is interesting. I might want to hook up a usb floppy drive and break out the DOS and windows 3.1 diskettes. :dance2:

I wonder how well OSX would run on one of these. While were at it, let's try Ubuntu too.

[a2ms]

It is quite possible and not as hard to recompile applications to run on Windows RT. However it does need to RECOMPILE.. because WinRT is based on ARM processor... so running Windows 95 in there meanse.. A) they recompiled.. except the sources are not public.. or b) they somehow ran a virtual machine that had windows 95 on it... Anyhow nobody would need windows 95 but it is a good step for the world of jailbreaker.

Oh and by the way even a jailbreaking tool was already released a few days ago: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/01/10/2248218/windows-rt-jailbreak-tool-released?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed