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Microsoft already designed a modified ARM ABI [1] compatible with emulated X86-64 just for this transition. But it's a Windows 11 feature. I wonder if the refus
by debugnik 11mo ago
Microsoft already designed a modified ARM ABI [1] compatible with emulated X86-64 just for this transition. But it's a Windows 11 feature. I wonder if the refusal of many of us to switch from Windows 10 is part of the reason why they're still idling on an ARM strategy.
[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/arm64ec-abi https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/arm64ec-abi
- p_l 11mo agoPart of the issue was incomplete amd64 emulation on windows which is why several MS products continued to ship 32bit - because while they might recompile their software for ARM, business users had binary-only extensions that they expected to continue using.