[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ulincsys:
I'm sorry but...

1)First off, incorrect. windows rt as well as windows 8, do require a uefi BUT only if specified during the initial setup process {in windows rt, this takes place at the factory, the user never goes through the initial setup process} windows rt is still partially built off the classic windows nt kernel; this means it CAN AND WILL boot from an MBR [master boot partition record] which is the default for all DOS/Windows operating systems from ms-dos 6.22 and on. linux based systems (Android/ubuntu) also use the MBR android does not use MBR by default, but one can be written on an android tablet.

-Mac os X is a Unix based system from apple,it can be installed on a pc, it does not boot from MBR like windows rt, but is compatible with all pc components like windows rt, and can even install windows drivers, all of this is done through a modified kernel. the project is called osx86.

-as for drivers: all of the hardware in the nexus 7, all the way down to the power button are compatible with windows, and windows drivers can be ported to rt; all except the arm processor and the chipset, however, a modified windows rt kernel could easily allow for the install of linux/android based drivers to give full support for these hardware components.

2)a developer with any sense in his head knows that even the most outdated and dead concepts are worth the effort, imagine if nobody goes after this; then when windows 11 does come out, we would have no magical breakthroughs or nostalgic/weird/even downright stupid ideas to base our efforts off of when somebody else wants windows 11 on their unlicensed android/other devices. for instance, when the osx86 project was started, 32 bit macs were already becoming outdated, however, all of the ports were for 32 bit systems; because of this, they had a base to catch up to the most modern 64 bit systems with.

3)as for legal issues, Microsoft could care less. bill gates WAS recorded on video saying that piracy was good business for microsoft

-"And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

and this legal department you speak of does just that, they find ways to get their money out of piracy, not punish piracy itself.

and to my actual comment.

-I read through this entire post, and noticed that one concern was getting our hands on a windows rt image, well your in luck. windows rt is built in the same way as android/linux/unix {basically anything other than windows} it has strayed from windows tradition in the way the the system is spread across several partitions and not just one partition: this makes it much easier to port to android, and much easier to flush windows rt off of an rt tablet, since rt tablets are based on arm processors, getting android on one would be a good start, then we could use android utilities to put rt in an image we could transfer off of the tablet and on to a pc for programming.

PS. the only reason i'm new to xda developers is because i spend WAY more time reading posts than writing them

Sent From my Nexus 7 Running Ubuntu Desktop 13.10

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EDIT:

I found a way to download and install windows rt, this would be a great start for any devs looking to get porting, i attached a pdf from microsoft with instructions on how to download and create an rt usb installer for recovery.