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On a Microsoft scale, it's always been trivial to write, I think it has a lot more to do with the gap in phone vs laptop performance shrinking significantly. Ma
by reitzensteinm 10y ago
On a Microsoft scale, it's always been trivial to write, I think it has a lot more to do with the gap in phone vs laptop performance shrinking significantly. Mainly because laptops have been stagnant.
Using any kind of desktop software on a 2011 mobile phone would have been horrible, even if the ARM translation were free.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoThat's true, but Windows RT was for tablets. Could a 2012 Windows RT tablet have run x86 software passably? I think maybe it could have, but the problem was that Microsoft believed the Windows Store and Metro was the future.
- gsnedders 10y agoDoing it well while either obtaining patent licenses or avoiding patents, however, could make it non-trivial.