Windows 8 on Pipo M7 Pro

[Rallen]

Is it possible to ditch the android and install Windows 8 on the M7 Pro? Just curious.

By the way I received the M7 Pro today and after just 2 mins of playing with it it crashed already and had to use the reset button at the back. I was trying to "add account" and was entering the password...

Edit: I meant RT.

[rrileypm]

In the most non-technical answer possible...Nope. I haven't seen a Windows implementation of any Rockchip devices...(yet, anyway).

I'm not sure it can even be done.

Depending on which firmware your M7 was delivered with, you might try an update...either an official Pipo firmware or one of my custom ROM's...it might solve your crash issue. It depends on the level of risk you are willing to take with your new device. By risk, I mean how much work you are willing to put into the flashing process. It is difficult to brick a Rockchip device, but you can run into touchy moments that you think it's bricked, but it really isn't.

Just study the readme.txt, First Time User's Guide and read through the threads before making your first attempt, because all of those resources contain some important information that will save you some headaches.

[Rallen]

Thanks
Just trying to draw parallels between phones/tabs and PCs :-

A PC architecture includes the CPU type (eg x86, x64 or PowerPC) but outside of the CPU a myriad of other hardware devices, for each of which the OS needs to have specific drivers. In Windows NT, at least, there is the HAL which usually takes care of abstracting the hardware from the higher levels of the OS. That way the OS can run on all those millions of PC configurations with just the proper drivers.

In the PC world, hardware and OS usually meet half-way. Most of the fundamental hardware has a compatible mode so that it can be used generically, for example your 2013 VGA still can emulate a 15 year old VGA at 640x480 so it can be used without special drivers. On the other side of the coin the OS installation CD (Windows, Linux) comes with a plethora of drivers for the most common hardware you are likely to encounter, for example Windows used to come with dozens of disk controllers and during installation tried them all to see which one fit.

Is there any similarity with the world of phones/tabs?

PS My crash was random it seems, it has not happened again.