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> their warning could backfire if it gives Microsoft one more reason to finally walk away from x86 compatibility Emulation is an important part of walking away
by markrages 9y ago
> their warning could backfire if it gives Microsoft one more reason to finally walk away from x86 compatibility
Emulation is an important part of walking away, no? Microsoft cares about backwards compatibility above anything else.
- natch 9y agoYes so they would absolutely want to find some workaround to support that, you're right.
- gaius 9y agoMicrosoft cares about backwards compatibility above anything else. Yes and no. If you're buying a managed service - like Azure HDinsight say - why do you care or even need to know what's under it? The volume buyers of CPUs now are the big cloud operators. If you're buying a tablet and consuming "apps", then why do you care about compatibility with old Windows desktop applications?
- wongarsu 9y ago>If you're buying a tablet and consuming "apps", then why do you care about compatibility with old Windows desktop applications? Because you operate some piece of enterprise software that was built in the 90s and is working just fine up until now. Average end-users (and to a certain degree cloud customers) aren't that picky about backwards compatibility, but enterprise customers certainly are.