Making it easier to support alternative architectures beyond x86 might have been one of the motives behind .NET. After all, .NET bytecode, like Java, is platfor

Making it easier to support alternative architectures beyond x86 might have been one of the motives behind .NET. After all, .NET bytecode, like Java, is platform independent, or can be made platform independent with minimal effort. This means that ARM windows will already have a "3rd party ecosystem".