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Is Microsoft also intentionally withholding software from Windows ARM? They only just shipped a fully native Visual Studio for ARM in December, four years after
by jsheard 3y ago
Is Microsoft also intentionally withholding software from Windows ARM? They only just shipped a fully native Visual Studio for ARM in December, four years after releasing the ARM-based Surface Pro X, and a decade after their earlier ARM push with the Tegra-based Surfaces.
- my123 3y agoVisual Studio had to wait for .NET Framework (not .NET Core) to be ported to ARM64 native. Quite a part of Microsoft wanted to avoid doing that outright, so it took quite a while to happen.
- jsheard 3y agoI see https://imgur.com/XLuaF0h https://imgur.com/XLuaF0h is as relevant as ever.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoGoogle has supported ARM Chromebooks for years; if MS was shipping software for Darwin on Apple silicon or Linux on ARM then yeah that would be a weird look
- zamadatix 3y agoMicrosoft does ship ARM64 software for macOS and Linux though. E.g. .net core, PowerShell, and VS Code come to mind. Some of the Office suite ships ARM64 on macOS only as well (Teams, Word, Excel, Outlook, etc) and, back to the topic of browsers, Edge too of course.