An Arm and a Windows

So as a Vikings fan living in Seahawks country I really don't get many opportunities to watch my favorite team play. With that in mind, I decided to pay for NFL Rewind, a service that basically DVRs every NFL game and keeps them available throughout the season for replay. For the first time in I don't know how long I've seen pretty much every snap the Vikings have played (why I subject to myself to this kind of torture is a completely different question...Seahawks fans are not that far removed from knowing what I'm talking about).

The thing about NFL Rewind is that it doesn't really work on mobile browsers. If you've paid for the subscription you can download a free viewing app on iOS or *some* Android devices, but that leads me to a point that I think a lot of reviewers (besides Tom's Hardware of course!) are missing: by far one of the most underrated aspects of Windows RT is the fact that you can view nearly every webpage on your tablet as you would on IE running on Windows 7 or 8. Hulu, NFL Rewind, Pandora...they all come in precisely as they would on a regular Windows 8 device (reviewers have commented that IE on RT only supports Flash on pre-screened sites, but so far I haven't run into any problems). It is genuinely nice to be able to have the full desktop browser experience on an ARM based tablet and not have to think about switching back and forth between the browser and finding the appropriate apps.

Now if that's one of the most underrated aspects of RT, then Microsoft would do well to reconsider icing out Firefox and Chrome. I get that IE doesn't want to give up any ground to competing browsers, but you could definitely slow down the steady stream of complaints regarding the lack of apps in the Windows App Store by making truly every web application available via Chrome and Firefox. I'm an Asana user, and the fact that it doesn't run on IE is almost keeping me from making the full switch from my notebook to the Surface.