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This is pretty interesting. I'm just imaging a future with inexpensive Windows ARM machines, passively-cooled, and running in most of the offices of your countr
by jmrm 4y ago
This is pretty interesting. I'm just imaging a future with inexpensive Windows ARM machines, passively-cooled, and running in most of the offices of your country.
With most of the important Microsoft software already compiled to ARM, and with those kits available to developers to do compile theirs at a competitive price, I won't doubt that future could be possible.
- layer8 4y agoThere are huge amounts of existing x86 software in use, including Office add-ins, Explorer extensions, and COM dependencies in general, that won’t be recompiled to ARM. The only way ARM would take over is if compatibility with existing binaries is maintained (which is very difficult if not impossible for x86 DLLs within ARM-based applications), and if their execution remains sufficiently performant.
- mmis1000 4y agoMicrosoft takes years to develop their own version of rosetta after the fail of Windows rt. And I think you are already able to use it now, you can already run x86 on Windows on arm vm on mac(m1). Just wondering the performance when running it on the dev kit they sell now.
- layer8 4y agoYou can run a self-contained x86 application and self-contained ARM applications, but you can’t integrate between ARM applications and x86 in-process components (DLLs etc.), and such integration is how a lot of things work in practice on Windows. Converting an x86 application to ARM means losing those integrations, and that is a major hurdle to adoption.
- MikusR 4y agohttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/windows-music-dev/load-x64-plug-ins-like-vsts-from-your-arm-code-using-arm64ec/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/windows-music-dev/load-x64-pl...