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The three or so people who run Windows 10 on Arm might be glad to know that x64 emulation is in preview

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No can do

Microsoft will be stuck supporting all x86 instructions forever or they will lose their customers. People use PCs running Windows because they get to use a powerful computer which runs everything no matter how old or how new it is. Take away the power and people will still use it but take away the “runs everything” compatibility too and it’s dead.

Microsoft would do well to partner with Intel to create some kind of “x86 accelerator card” using DMA so that folks can forevermore run their old applications and weird/wonderful userspace system services/daemons at essentially full speed with only minimal emulation. Otherwise, folks will stick with x86 to continue to be able to run 25+ year old collections of software and Windows on ARM won’t ever get community support.

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