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They have already tried this one. It didn't end well.

• oliveshell 7y ago
  Exactly; they got that out of their system with Windows RT. (And apparently the upcoming Windows 10 for ARM will ship with Win32 support via emulation.)
  • dspillett 7y ago
    Win32 is an OS API, which doesn't necessarily relate to the CPU or other chipset members. Do you mean it will Win10 for ARM will support code targetted at ia32/amd64 CPUs via emulation?
  • mrpippy 7y ago
    Windows 10 on ARM has been shipping for over a year, and it has an x86 (but not x86-64) emulator. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/
    • oliveshell 7y ago
      Oops, thanks— clearly I’ve not been following things too closely! (I think I wrongly assumed it wasn’t out yet since I hadn’t heard of a new ARM-based Surface release.)
• SomeOldThrow 7y ago
  What’s the killer app for win32?
  • dspillett 7y ago
    There is a lot of Win32 using code out there. It may even be the case that MS's long-lived flagship products (Office, VS) are not completely free of it.
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  • stagger87 7y ago
    In the event you are not joking, there are entire industries running on Win32. My industry alone (EDA) is a 100B dollar industry. I'm aware of many others.
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  • peteri 7y ago
    VBA macros in Excel is my standard answer.
  • Narishma 7y ago
    Everything that makes Windows worth using.
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    • SomeOldThrow 7y ago
      Fwiw my question was not intended to be facetious and it may not be obvious what makes Windows worth using.
  • Kye 7y ago
    The installers for 64 bit applications.