For enthusiasts, this was a prison. The hardware (ARM-based Tegra 3 or 4 chips) was capable, but Microsoft locked the bootloader and restricted classic .exe desktop apps. Enter the "Jailbreak" community.
To make the jailbreak permanent across reboots, users installed RT Seven — a custom loader that re-patches the kernel on every boot. jailbreak windows rt 8.1 surface
The most stable was "RT Jailbreak" by never_released (v1.20 or later). Extract the files to C:\Jailbreak . For enthusiasts, this was a prison
In the dark ages of Microsoft’s hardware experiment (circa 2013), the Surface RT and Surface 2 were sleek, beautiful, and utterly frustrating. They ran Windows RT 8.1—a version of Windows that looked like Windows 8 but could only run apps from the official Microsoft Store. To make the jailbreak permanent across reboots, users
Date: Circa Post-Support Era Target: Surface RT, Surface 2 (Tegra 3/Tegra 4)