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Qualcomm, meanwhile, has announced today that they think 2024 will be their year. Great, an entire 8 years after the first Windows on ARM Qualcomm devices... b

Qualcomm, meanwhile, has announced today that they think 2024 will be their year. Great, an entire 8 years after the first Windows on ARM Qualcomm devices... but they think they've got it this time. For sure. https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/03/qualcomm_q4_2022/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/03/qualcomm_q4_2022/ Edit: This is so incomprehensibly late it's just embarrassing. It's been 2 presidencies. Qualcomm had an exclusivity contract for Windows on ARM for literally half a decade (2016-2021) which they did absolutely nothing of significance with. And if 2024 is their year, it will be 4 years after M1. Yikes. Not to mention the lawsuit between themselves and ARM Holdings over whether Nuvia's designs are legitimate, which could delay things further. Nuvia had better be like pulling a rabbit out of a hat when it arrives. Edit 2: @beembeem Right... shutters. 8 years in the sense of modern Windows with some 32-bit Intel app compatibility. But as for ARM as a whole... Windows RT and Windows CE before it...

beembeem 4y ago
8 years? Try more like a decade. https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2012/06/impressions-windows-rt-arm https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2012/06/impressions-window...
- sumtechguy 4y ago
  keep going... (source: old wince sdk survivor)
captainmuon 4y ago
I don't blame Qualcomm as much as I blame Microsoft. They tried to use the transition to ARM to lockdown and smartphonize PCs. There were at least two attempts to bring out a restricted, store only version of Windows (Windows RT and Windows 10 S). But what's the point of Windows when you can't use the majority of existing Windows software? ARM and x86 differences are bad enough, but they had to artificially add more barriers.
noveltyaccount 4y ago
Thanks for the trip down memory lane...I had a Surface RT in 2012 and it was a turd. Terrible performance and way too locked down to be useful.
- aidenn0 4y ago
  I still use my Surface RT for videos on car trips. It has a USB port, a 16:9 screen and can run (a very old version of) VLC. I wouldn't have paid money for it, but I got it for free.

beembeem 4y ago

8 years? Try more like a decade. https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2012/06/impressions-windows-rt-arm https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2012/06/impressions-window...

sumtechguy 4y ago
keep going... (source: old wince sdk survivor)

captainmuon 4y ago

I don't blame Qualcomm as much as I blame Microsoft. They tried to use the transition to ARM to lockdown and smartphonize PCs. There were at least two attempts to bring out a restricted, store only version of Windows (Windows RT and Windows 10 S). But what's the point of Windows when you can't use the majority of existing Windows software? ARM and x86 differences are bad enough, but they had to artificially add more barriers.

noveltyaccount 4y ago

Thanks for the trip down memory lane...I had a Surface RT in 2012 and it was a turd. Terrible performance and way too locked down to be useful.

aidenn0 4y ago
I still use my Surface RT for videos on car trips. It has a USB port, a 16:9 screen and can run (a very old version of) VLC. I wouldn't have paid money for it, but I got it for free.