Microsoft never forced developers to jump onto Arm the way Apple did.
That’s a key part in why Windows Arm is such a substandard experience.
The Windows executive in this article sounds delusional. He talks about how if the Surface Product line actually had footing, we’d eventually see Arm bases desktops under the Windows umbrella.
The Surface failed because Windows just isn’t cool. No one consciously buys a Windows PC. It’s either to play games or do work.
__patchbit__•40m ago
Apple developers had jumped architectures more than a few times. They didn't break a sweatshop going to Apple Silicon.
pipeline_peak•36m ago
The point I’m trying to make isn’t that it was difficult. It’s that the transition was effective because they had to.
Unlike Windows with this grey area of Arm / x86.
nxtfari•38m ago
In his entire screed he never realizes the reason Apple got their transition to work was they genuinely worked hard to make it happen on both ends: they forced developers hard AND still shipped Rosetta 2 to make it seamless for user anxiety for laggard developers. They even had this playbook watching Apple do their first transition from PowerPC to x86. Yet he seems to think Windows 8’s problem was velocity.
pipeline_peak•51m ago
That’s a key part in why Windows Arm is such a substandard experience.
The Windows executive in this article sounds delusional. He talks about how if the Surface Product line actually had footing, we’d eventually see Arm bases desktops under the Windows umbrella.
The Surface failed because Windows just isn’t cool. No one consciously buys a Windows PC. It’s either to play games or do work.
__patchbit__•40m ago
pipeline_peak•36m ago
Unlike Windows with this grey area of Arm / x86.