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Furthermore I am confident that RT will be quietly put to sleep during 2014.'ДЄ focus by Microsoft on Windows Phone and 'full-fat' Windows - the latter able to run all the legacy applications from the past two decades - would simplify the company's OS strategy. 'I suspect that there will be no Surface 3 and no successor to the Nokia 2520. Hence the devices that are based on it are underpowered with hideously limited functionality on the desktop making them inferior to both Android and iOS tablets.' Windows RT is an orphan child that sits between Windows 8 and Windows Phone and is neither fish nor fowl. Always one to treat hot potatoes delicately, Microsoft has not explicitly said that RT will be terminated but has made it very clear that there will not be three operating systems. Richard Windsor, who runs the Radio Free Mobile consultancy, commented: 'I have long suspected which is that Windows RT will be killed off sooner rather than later. Microsoft had to write down $900m at the end of the June quarter on unsold Surface RT devices.

Only Microsoft and Nokia's handset division, which is being acquired by Microsoft, make any RT devices.

Her comments, made at a UBS seminar, appear to confirm the growing suspicions that Windows RT has been a failure both with OEMs PC makers and developers, who have all but abandoned it.

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We have Windows RT and we have full Windows. Larson-Green, who is executive vice-president of Devices and Studios at Microsoft, said that the aim of Windows RT was 'our first go at creating that more closed, turnkey experience вЂ¦' but that Microsoft now has three mobile operating systems: 'We have the Windows Phone OS. Microsoft looks ready to kill off Windows RT, its version of Windows devised for chips based on ARM's architecture, judging by remarks by senior executive Julie Larson-Green.

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