An Arm and a Windows

Well, it's finally happened. I read over on Shiny Surface that a hacker who goes by C.L. Rockr has successfully "jailbroken" Windows RT. Since two of RT's biggest drawbacks are 1) the low number of quality apps and 2) the embargo Microsoft has placed on third party programs running on RT (resulting in no third party browsers like Chrome or Firefox), this has the potential to be a game changer.

This is really great news for all RT users. In theory, all someone has to do is take the open source Chromium code for Windows 8 and compile an ARM build for it and RT users will be running Chrome (and all of the glorious applications that run on it) on their Surfaces, Vivo Tabs, etc.

Shiny Surface reported minutes later that a developer named Peter Nelson has already started taking advantage of this and has a successful port to his credit.