DHAKA: Dell has opted not to release a Windows RT device among its latest line-up of tablets and laptops.

The US manufacturer had been the last to support the operating system other than its creator, Microsoft.

Dell said the software had failed to “resonate” with its customers because it did not support legacy software available to the full Windows 8 OS.

The firm is in the process of being taken over by a group led by its founder, Michael Dell.

He plans to stop its shares being publicly traded and refocus Dell’s operations on business-targeted software and services rather than consumer-focused hardware.

However, the company said it would continue to sell devices in order to provide its customers with an “end-to-end solution”.

“We’re not going to put all our eggs into different baskets - what we have to do is focus on our strengths,” Adam Griffin, Dell’s global product manager for commercial tablets, told the BBC.

“We’ve focused our attention on the Windows 8.1 operating system because that’s where the majority of the applications are [in the] segment that we’re after, which is the commercial consumer environment.

“RT, even by Microsoft’s admission, is a little bit limited in terms of the amount of applications you can get.”

Mr Griffin added that there had been resistance from corporate IT departments to the idea of supporting what was effectively another operating system on top of the various releases of the main Windows OS.

Source: BBC
BDST: 1804 HRS, OCT 03, 2013
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