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Im using a surface rt, and It wont even play basic mp4 movies smoothly. It's so laggy and crashes. I want it to play hevc mkvs and m4v files but it does the same thing.

> Why does it suck so bad on windows RT?

Because the code hasn't been maintained in a while and there are a lot of hairy corners in the codebase. Also, the developer tools for 8.1 are barely useable as Microsoft aren't really maintaining them.

Know that everyone is dogging at the Microsoft Surface RT pill nowadays. I knew Windows RT had its problems, however beyond a few cursory playing round, I by no means without a doubt sat down and attempted to use one until today. And allow me inform you—it is awful. Really, genuinely horribly really awful. Every short while I'm appalled through something else and saying out loud, "Are you kidding me? How ought to Microsoft release this piece of garbage?"

You realize we sold a Surface RT tablet lower back in October. Jack wrote a evaluation of it proper away, and Gabe's had it at his residence when you consider that then. This week Gabe is journeying me in San Francisco as we pretend to do vital work which prevents us from attending the TechTarget worldwide income meeting in Boston. He added the Surface RT with him to hand off to me. I concept I might write modern weblog submit on it, but I could not. I literally couldn't use it to do work. So now I'm on my pc scripting this rant.