That's good. I do think the windows on arm thing is really happening for real this time. Just slowly and painfully. And at a time when Windows sucks balls and everybody wants off of it anyway.
I kind of wish they’d stuck to their guns on making Windows for ARM a clean from the legacy cruft that Windows drags along with it. The problem was that when they tried it the “modern” features of the OS were too barebones but 11’s in a better state now in that regard despite all the copilot crap they keep cramming into it.Â
Yeah they needed a clean break like 10 years ago with a compatibility layer for legacy support.
They still need that but everything they're doing is so late and half baked...well it's a different discussion. I have the unpopular opinion that windows is cooked but it's a separate discussion.
That's never, ever been Microsoft's way. Backwards compat to the point of putting hacks for specific big apolications to fix bugs they shipped with has always been a thing, and it's one of the reasons enterprise embraced them.
It's shitty for regular end users that have to deal with the cruft, but for their main audience (and where they make most their money) it's a killer feature.
They could have a compatibility layer. Macs can run intel software, and wine has been so successful at this point that I'm successful running windows applications on linux or mac nine times out of ten. If they can run on a completely different system, they can run on a first party microsoft OS, even if its been rebuilt.
You need to think of the million weird enterprise applications developed for windows over the years. Good luck getting them to run in a compatibility layer that's not 100% perfect.Â
light24bulbs@reddit
That's good. I do think the windows on arm thing is really happening for real this time. Just slowly and painfully. And at a time when Windows sucks balls and everybody wants off of it anyway.
SharkBaitDLS@reddit
I kind of wish they’d stuck to their guns on making Windows for ARM a clean from the legacy cruft that Windows drags along with it. The problem was that when they tried it the “modern” features of the OS were too barebones but 11’s in a better state now in that regard despite all the copilot crap they keep cramming into it.Â
light24bulbs@reddit
Yeah they needed a clean break like 10 years ago with a compatibility layer for legacy support.
They still need that but everything they're doing is so late and half baked...well it's a different discussion. I have the unpopular opinion that windows is cooked but it's a separate discussion.
kentrak@reddit
That's never, ever been Microsoft's way. Backwards compat to the point of putting hacks for specific big apolications to fix bugs they shipped with has always been a thing, and it's one of the reasons enterprise embraced them.
It's shitty for regular end users that have to deal with the cruft, but for their main audience (and where they make most their money) it's a killer feature.
light24bulbs@reddit
They could have a compatibility layer. Macs can run intel software, and wine has been so successful at this point that I'm successful running windows applications on linux or mac nine times out of ten. If they can run on a completely different system, they can run on a first party microsoft OS, even if its been rebuilt.
Wonderful-Wind-5736@reddit
You need to think of the million weird enterprise applications developed for windows over the years. Good luck getting them to run in a compatibility layer that's not 100% perfect.Â
Specific-Goose4285@reddit
Microsoft has you covered by selling you cloud desktops on Azure!
But suriously the TPM2 thing show they have no qualm breaking anything older than pre-TPM era chips.
light24bulbs@reddit
Mac solved this pretty well with the ARM switch although I agree that's different than rebuilding the entire OS.
Id even be ok with a sneaky VM
Wonderful-Wind-5736@reddit
That's what most of my colleagues are doing. Get a Mac and a Windows VM with Remote Desktop.Â
light24bulbs@reddit
My point is that if you go to extreme lengths you can build compatibility into an operating system even if you have to run a sneaky VM in there