Microsoft brings Windows desktop apps to mobile ARM processors
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rl66
not a giant step as there is already lot of x86 windows / arm android crossover tool that make one app running on other...
but it's good anyway.
BLEH!
Useful for those of us with WinPhone 😀
schmidtbag
They should've done this the first time around when releasing Windows RT.
The reason people like Windows is familiarity and compatibility. Windows RT, (having the Windows 8 setup) was unfamiliar and ARM was incompatible with most people's programs. It's no wonder why it failed so hard.
Unfortunately, a complete compatibility layer like this isn't going to really give users a much better experience. If 90% of the applications people run are for x86, the customer basically just wasted their money on a piece of hardware that is almost never running at its full potential. It's kind of like buying a sports car with a chassis made of lead.
PrMinisterGR
I don't believe this was even possible power-wise. I'm more impressed that Windows have become so light that an ARM CPU can run the full desktop with a seamless translation layer on top. From the video we can also hear him say that they don't modify any apps, so it's a global translation layer that works seamlessly.
The "unfamiliar" part of Windows (UWP), is probably the best app platform existing. Disregarding any store problems that have to do more with deployment, there is no other app platform that can work seamlessly in all form factors, even including the Xbox and Holographs.
We should wait to judge performance, but for a business this could be an immense money saver both in purchasing costs (instead of mobile+laptop+desktop you get a mobile and it's done), and in maintenance (one device vs 2/3).
schmidtbag
PrMinisterGR
schmidtbag
craycray
schmidtbag
https://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/
Use the x86 version of Wine (or Crossover) and you can run Windows programs on ARM-based Linux.
Take note how Exagear doesn't require a relatively powerful CPU.
That's true, but this software has been around for a while:
craycray
Anarion
This is pretty huge! I can't wait to get rid of my super ****ty laptop and replace it with ARM based Windows 10 tablet.