The real barrier to WOA native support at this point (for developers anyway)

[dstrauss]

@Tams

Ultimately, I think if Microsoft really thought that the game was up and that Arm/RISC had won that they’d pivot pretty fast for a company their size.

But they have deep knowledge of what chip designers are doing and planning well into the future. I reckon that from that knowledge that they know that x86/CISC is going to at least remain competitive enough for it not to be worth completely turning their company around.

BINGO! I ask my perennial WOA question - WHY? It’s not just battery efficiency and 5g - that is not of a reason to keep fiddling with ARM. Intel needs to (and may be) getting it’s **** together and produce more efficient processors. With M$ so hung up on the cloud (Windows 365 anyone) and services, why should M$ continue with this failed experiment and just keep chugging along with x86. Come one come all - Windows, MacOS, iPadOS, Android, Chrome, Linux, you name it. In the words of Khan:

Of course We are one big happy fleet