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the amount of relevant windows software that can run on ARM is a rounding error, and x86 emulation on ARM sounds completely unusable. Microsoft is very dependa
by throwaway2048 10y ago
the amount of relevant windows software that can run on ARM is a rounding error, and x86 emulation on ARM sounds completely unusable.
Microsoft is very dependant on x86.
- heisenbit 10y agoMicrosoft is still very dependent on x86. But the two main platform with potential to go forward: Server and Office are now both running on ARM.
- rbanffy 10y agoThe opposite is still very much the case. 64-bit desktop processors only started selling when a version capable of running 32-bit Windows became available (and not from Intel, who was putting all their eggs on Itanium) and only took off after a 64-bit version of Windows for them was released. Inertia is a powerful thing.