[Microsoft Surface] SixSixSevenSeven:
You will also find that it is recommended you seek an answer yourself before lazily posting in here so you don't have a leg to stand on with telling me I cant tell you to google it. Its rather obvious you didn't search because each question I answered referring to google I got answers for within the time that it took me to write this paragraph. It would be a waste of my time to write a guide to setup team viewer, it would be a waste of my time to list all the ROM sites I can think of. Frankly I don't mind helping a person and often that is what I prefer to do even going as far as to write pages of info for a person but when I find someone has clearly not made any effort on their part, why should I waste my time?

The hacking, rooting and jailbreaking that go on here are not illegal. Check the EULAs for your devices and under both EU law and US law the manufacturer has no legal write to prevent you from doing so, they simply end your warranty.

Emulators also are not illegal, or rather the emulator itself is not, hence why we discuss the emulator itself. However some emulators require a BIOS file to run (a few manage to emulate bios functions, this is increasingly common at the cost of accuracy), the bios is property of the console manufacturer and it would be illegal for us to redistribute as the eula for the console prevents us from distributing its software. The same applies to the ROM files. Emulator there is no problem with. But the BIOS and ROM files are copyrighted so for us to aid you with those would be a copyright violation which we prohibit, this is a developers forum so I imagine you can understand that us developers don't take too kindly to people ripping our work so we treat other software with the same respect. There is no law against an emulator, it doesn't use any intellectual property from the original console, its just a new piece of software which just so happens to be capable of loading software for another console.

I never said there wasn't a way to play things on your tablet other than MP4. You've searched the store and seen several apps. A few people have reviewed those apps and asked the very same question here (again coming under the research thing already mentioned which you clearly haven't done) and been given very good answers. I don't care if your laptop is windows 7 or 8 as from a desktop software point of view they are identical.

You clearly don't have the experience you claim you do with android rooting seeming as you state it to be something else entirely. Linux systems (android sitting atop Linux) do not by default log a person in with administrator privileges, android doesn't even give the user the option of administrator privileges on their own device. Root is the Linux equivalent of administrator. Rooting is simply the process of gaining admin rights. Windows RT however being based off of windows 8 already has a normal admin setup. The restrictions on windows 8 are not a case of lacking admin rights, the restrictions on android are. It doesn't turn the device into anything else, its just the exact same as logging in as android.

Now. Onto why you can't load windows 7 on the surface RT.

A normal windows computer utilises an x86 compatible processor usually from Intel or AMD. Most android phones or tablets tend to use an ARM compatible processor. x86 and ARM are 100% incompatible. There is no way to run x86 software on ARM without emulation and vice versa. Traditionally x86 has offered greater performance than ARM but ARM has enabled a smaller form factor, cost and has smaller power requirements. The same way a V12 super-car engine may have higher performance but I can go buy a little city car with a 1 litre inline 3 cylinder engine which will require less fuel and be smaller. As a result ARM is rather suitable to mobile devices which traditionally don't need much performance. Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 are both x86_32 or its derivative AMD64 (often just labelled x64 or x86_64). Windows RT however is a port of windows 8 to ARM devices, Microsoft seemed to believe they needed to get into the tablet game and that the best introduction would be ARM and unfortunately confused many consumers such as yourself. The surface RT uses an NVidia Tegra 3 processor (which is ARM) running windows RT. x86 emulation on the Tegra 3 is theoretically possible, but your looking at the emulated x86 machine having the performance of a desktop PC about 20 years ago which is a long time in computing.

To top it off, for some reason Microsoft decided unlike windows 8 which when told to load a program (provided its compiled for x86 which it nearly exclusively will be) will run it, windows RT will not. Instead they decided that windows RT will scan the program for a special signature, and if the signature is valid it will run it, if the signature is not valid it will not run it. All apps on the windows store have that signature, no problem. Microsoft office that comes loaded on the device (and on RT is specifically compiled for the ARM processor instead of x86) has that signature. But Microsoft doesn't provide the tools for us to sign programs ourselves. They did provide the tools to compile desktop programs (or some anyway) for the RT's arm processor, but because we can't sign them your tablet won't run them. If you write your own windows store app it is possible to load a developers certificate onto the device (that is free actually but lasts 30 days at a time, at which point you just renew it) and run those and as part of the store app submission Microsoft will give a permanent signature so that people can download the apps from the store without having to do anything to their device, that doesn't work for desktop apps on RT which seems to be what you are needing of course.

This is where the jailbreak comes in. It exploits a slight flaw in windows RT that allows us to disable the signature checking so provided a program has been compiled for ARM and not x86 it will run it without checking if it has the signature required or not just like windows 8 does. But this is for ARM or .NET programs only (.NET programs are usually not CPU dependent, they just need the .NET framework which is included on windows 7, 8 and RT). Microsoft patched a small part of the exploit in their 8.1 update to RT, so newer devices cannot jailbreak without downgrading back to RT 8.0.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2092158 <- Jailbreak tool

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2092348 <- List of ported software which does include a media player (ffmpeg)

Chrome or Firefox are not on the above list. Not portable easily.

VLC are working on a windows store version of VLC however I think the initial release will be windows 8 only not windows 8 and RT.

I gave you answers for best cloud service for laptop, phone and tablet. Skydrive has native windows RT 8.1 integration or a windows RT app, it has a regular windows desktop application, it has an android app and it has web access. Dropbox is the same in offering RT app, desktop app, android app and web access. Google drive doesn't have an RT app but does still have the web access you could use or it has a windows desktop program and android app. Pogoplug *is* usable with RT but via the web only, it does not have an actual app available.

If you were after an android tablet, you should have bought an android tablet (from a technical point of view it isn't impossible to run android on the surface RT but the bootloader is locked making it very difficult to attempt a port, shame actually, would make a very nice android device). If you were after full blown windows compatibility to run your old applications again RT wasn't the correct choice, there are several windows tablets using x86 processors running full blown windows 8 without the limitations of RT. Some use the Intel core i3 or i5 and have slight battery issues compared to what you may be used to (not as bad as one would think though, I think the surface pro 2 manages 6 hours or so), others use the intel atom (which has broken free of its old poor performance stereotype, sure its not core i5 territory but its old reputation is no longer deserved). The dell venue 8 pro and Asus t100 are probably the cheapest entrants into this category, both are Intel atom powered with the dell having an 8" screen at 250 British pounds and the t100 having 10" screen at 300-350 British pounds (depending on retailer). The RT leftover stock is in the 250-300 bracket here in the UK. Just an alternate option for if you were to manage to return your device instead.

Seeming as the sight of red lines gives you a headache, its been spell checked, find one spelling mistake that cannot be attributed to technobabble not being in the dictionary.