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How come Windows works on ARM but there's no way to run it bare metal on Apple Silicon? Asahi works so Microsoft should have the resources to port it shouldn't
by segasaturn 2y ago
How come Windows works on ARM but there's no way to run it bare metal on Apple Silicon? Asahi works so Microsoft should have the resources to port it shouldn't they?
- freedomben 2y ago> Asahi works so Microsoft should have the resources to port it shouldn't they? Asahi works because open source devs working for free made it work by reverse engineering stuff. But why should Microsoft spend the effort to make Windows work on Apple Silicon, when by far the biggest benficiary of that would be Apple who would sell more hardware? Apple should be the one to invest resources to do it. Not to mention that if Microsoft did it, Apple could throw a wrench in it at any time, leaving Microsoft with users that expect support that it can't support because Apple won't let it (or makes it more difficult than it needs to be).
- segasaturn 2y agoYou would think as a software vendor, Microsoft has incentive to port their software to run on as many platforms as possible.
- pjmlp 2y agoThere are tons of them, all PC OEMs, with 80% of world's desktop and laptop market.
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- jmull 2y agoIt would be on Apple to create and release Windows drivers, like they did for Windows on Intel Macs. This time around I'm not sure they have the incentive.
- whizzter 2y agoProbably either an unwillingness from Apple to share HW documentation with MS or MS viewing Apple as a direct competitor now that they have their own machines so they prefer not to undermine their own business.
- Kye 2y agoThey already have plenty of hardware makers building ARM laptops running Windows or planning to. Windows is still the dominant operating system outside mobile, and mobile hasn't yet killed laptops and desktops despite perennial announcements of their demise. They have the resources to do all kinds of things they don't do for the same reason: why would they? What would they get out of it? Apple is nothing next to the smallest Windows OEM.
- pjmlp 2y agoNo business sense, want Windows buy a Windows laptop. Asahi is also more a maker community reverse engineering Apple laptops, because they can. A rounding error on the amount laptops Apple sells.