Considering Microsoft finally added the x86 compatibility to Windows on ARM as soon as Apple launched M1 based Macs I don't think your comment will age very well. Slightly trolling here, sorry.
More seriously, the reason for dropping x86 is not Apple saying so but the fact that we've essentially hit the limits of Moore's law. You can't make transistors smaller than a couple nanometers. The only way to increase computing power is to marry all purpose processing cores with purpose-built cores that do heavy lif
I thought I had made it clear that my comment was tongue in cheek. Anyway. What I was referring to with my comment was this https://www.theregister.com/20... [theregister.com] Windows 10 on ARM didn't have an x86-64 emulation and it still doesn't except in preview. The timing could be coincidental but Apple announced Rosetta 2 and Microsoft realised they need to show the world they have already been working on the same thing, too.
You also make a lot of assumptions about me. I am not an Apple fanboy. I use Windows 10, Kubuntu and macOS equally. I have two phones, an iPhone and an Android. I can't say I like any over the other. If anything, I can write whole books about everything that irks me in each and every OS and device I have.
I will tell you something else. I never thought that Microsoft is late to the party. On the contrary, they are typically so early they don't even know there's a party to be held later on. Remember Windows CE? I had a smartphone with it before iPhone and Android were a thing. Microsoft could have dominated the mobile market the same way Wintel dominated the desktop market in the 90s and 00s. They failed to follow through and lost the market. Remember Windows RT? Microsoft could be the leading force in desktop computing on ARM by now. They never quite got what people expected from such a device and they lost the opportunity. Luckily, they seemed to get their act together in 2016 when the first rumours about an ARM-based Mac being in development circulated and have something to show for it. You seem to have simultaneously written off Windows 10 on ARM (the comment I replied to) and vehemently defending it (your reply top my comment). That doesn't make sense. For what it's worth, I am HAPPY that Microsoft already has a viable desktop OS on ARM-based architectures and that Qualcomm is still making ARM-based designs that can rival Apple's counterparts. In the end of the day these companies trying to one-up each other benefits us, the consumers.
There are a ton of brilliant developers at Microsoft. The entire team working on.NET Core is just one facet I think are brilliant. Where Microsoft typically falls on its sword is the conceptual vision and the management that is needed to get there. Windows RT...very smart to open up Windows to ARM processors, which is where the mobile world was headed. Dumb idea to wall it off from the rest of the Windows world. Instead, they should have dogpiled their hardware and software teams into solving the ARM/x86 d
The Industry Follows Apple Again (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple: Drops non-USB Legacy ports
Others: Laugh at Apple for dropping non-USB Legacy ports
Others: Drop non-USB Legacy ports
Apple: Drops Floppy drives
Others: Laugh at Apple for dropping Floppy drives
Others: Drop Floppy drives
Apple: Drops Floppy CD/DVD Rom drives
Others: Laugh at Apple for dropping CD/DVDs drives
Others: Drop CD/DVD ROM drives
Apple: Drops Headphone jack
Others: Laugh at Apple for dropping Headphone jack
Others: Drop Headphone jack
Apple: Drops Charging brick
Others: Laugh at Apple for dropping Charg
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Apple: Drops x86
Others: Laugh at Apple for dropping x86
Others: Drop x86
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considering no one has dropped x86.. . . . . . .
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Considering Microsoft finally added the x86 compatibility to Windows on ARM as soon as Apple launched M1 based Macs I don't think your comment will age very well. Slightly trolling here, sorry.
More seriously, the reason for dropping x86 is not Apple saying so but the fact that we've essentially hit the limits of Moore's law. You can't make transistors smaller than a couple nanometers. The only way to increase computing power is to marry all purpose processing cores with purpose-built cores that do heavy lif
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What is with you Apple fanatics always wanting to re-write history to only make it look like Apple does anything in tech?
Here is some documentation from Microsoft about Windows 10 ARM being able to run x86 code in Feb of 2018:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on-arm-x86-emulation#:~:text=Emulation%20for%20x86%20apps%20makes%20the%20rich%20ecosystem,unless%20it%20calls%20specific%20APIs%20(%20IsWoW64Process2%20). [microsoft.com]
Re:The Industry Follows Apple Again (Score:2)
I thought I had made it clear that my comment was tongue in cheek. Anyway. What I was referring to with my comment was this https://www.theregister.com/20... [theregister.com] Windows 10 on ARM didn't have an x86-64 emulation and it still doesn't except in preview. The timing could be coincidental but Apple announced Rosetta 2 and Microsoft realised they need to show the world they have already been working on the same thing, too.
You also make a lot of assumptions about me. I am not an Apple fanboy. I use Windows 10, Kubuntu and macOS equally. I have two phones, an iPhone and an Android. I can't say I like any over the other. If anything, I can write whole books about everything that irks me in each and every OS and device I have.
I will tell you something else. I never thought that Microsoft is late to the party. On the contrary, they are typically so early they don't even know there's a party to be held later on. Remember Windows CE? I had a smartphone with it before iPhone and Android were a thing. Microsoft could have dominated the mobile market the same way Wintel dominated the desktop market in the 90s and 00s. They failed to follow through and lost the market. Remember Windows RT? Microsoft could be the leading force in desktop computing on ARM by now. They never quite got what people expected from such a device and they lost the opportunity. Luckily, they seemed to get their act together in 2016 when the first rumours about an ARM-based Mac being in development circulated and have something to show for it. You seem to have simultaneously written off Windows 10 on ARM (the comment I replied to) and vehemently defending it (your reply top my comment). That doesn't make sense. For what it's worth, I am HAPPY that Microsoft already has a viable desktop OS on ARM-based architectures and that Qualcomm is still making ARM-based designs that can rival Apple's counterparts. In the end of the day these companies trying to one-up each other benefits us, the consumers.
Happy holidays, mate.
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