Support VM Browser Access from Surface RT
I'd like to be able to access my VM machines from my Surface RT tablet. At present I can do this with the Remote Desktop App, however, it's a bit of a pain since the RDP addresses are always changing. It'd be nice if it just worked from the IE App (or had it's own RT supported ARM app) they way it does from an iPad. I'm thinking that the iPad HTML5 access method would probably work, just need it to detect the Surface RT User-Agent and redirect to it.
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Hey Scott,
That's great news!
To my knowledge there is no version of Chrome that runs on Surface RT. I know you can throw Chrome into "Windows 8 Mode" on a Win8 PC which makes it run like an app, but it's still an x86 desktop app (not an ARM metro app). Even the Google search app for Surface RT appears to just use IE as it's browser.
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Update: This still doesn't work on Windows RT 8.1, released recently.
Your note above about Chrome on Surface makes me wonder if there's not some confusion on the CloudShare side about Windows RT. It's not the same as regular Windows. Surface and Surface Pro do not run the same OS.
I will be upgrading to a Surface Pro soon so this will not be an issue for me much longer, but having this available on RT would be a good thing for RT users, in my opinion.
Thanks as always.
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