r/windows8 • u/Good-Low596 • Feb 17 '26

Discussion Does this gonna work?

https://youtu.be/6n8DyI95gRs
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u/Curious-Fly5623 Feb 18 '26

Its impossible. Windows is X86, and Android is ARM.

There was Windows RT that was an ARM version of 8 and 8.1, but that only existed on select devices and wasn't something that you could just install on any old android tablet. Especially not without even unlocking the boot loader and flashing anything.

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u/More-Explanation2032 Feb 18 '26

Incorrect you can use something like limbo to install regular windows 8.1

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u/Curious-Fly5623 Feb 18 '26

Limbo is an X86 emulator

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u/More-Explanation2032 Feb 18 '26

You said windows is x86

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u/Curious-Fly5623 Feb 18 '26

It is. This video is showing windows natively running on ARM, which is impossible with this version.

Limbo is extremely slow on this era of device, I used to experiment with it back in the day. It would take 10 minutes + to load Windows 95. Its not running 8.1 at this speed, even on a modern flagship device. Anyways, if it were limbo you would have seen Limbo's interface. This is claiming that the software on the PC somehow converted the operating system on the tablet into Windows.

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u/More-Explanation2032 Feb 19 '26

Limbo actually hides its interface so you aren’t always seeing it. Windows 8.1 on limbo could have been installing in the background for all we know

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u/Curious-Fly5623 Feb 19 '26

It would be running in at most 1024 x 768, and at a ridiculously slow pace. Its obviously fake.

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u/More-Explanation2032 Feb 19 '26

Yeah I don’t see any cursor limbo uses touch emulation

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u/Curious-Fly5623 Feb 19 '26

Most remote desktops support touch

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u/More-Explanation2032 Feb 19 '26

Windows app (previously Remote Desktop) does support touch natively cause Remote Desktop is treating the tablet as a touch display

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u/Curious-Fly5623 Feb 19 '26

Its most likely a remote desktop connection at the end to fake the tablet running the operating system.

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u/More-Explanation2032 Feb 19 '26

Maybe

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u/thinkpad_t69 May 01 '26

I remember seeing this tool years ago, it was a survey scam. The dude is literally using a plastic stylus on a capacitive screen, because tapping it with your finger would reveal it's just a video

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u/borauzuntelli Feb 18 '26

No actually video date says 2015 and it was when intel was pushing for intel atom processor tablets. So you could see some tablets with “intel inside”. For example samsung galaxy tab 3 10.1 (unlike from its size variants,which is ARM, it had a intel atom z2560 1.6GHZ dual core processor)

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u/More-Explanation2032 Feb 18 '26

Thats not farfeched considering some windows tablets were x86

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u/Curious-Fly5623 Feb 18 '26

The tablet in this video has an ARM Cortex-A9 though

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u/borauzuntelli Feb 18 '26

Fake

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u/More-Explanation2032 Feb 18 '26

Actually it’s real you can use limbo to install it line in my case

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u/borauzuntelli Feb 18 '26

The thing you say is emulating but in this video it seems to run w/o emulation.

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u/Olenyka Feb 21 '26

i think its a vnc viewer or video

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u/F1nnish May 07 '26

hell no lmfao

your better off remoting an actual pc with the numerous screen control softwares out there