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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: So =?UTF-8?B?SG934oCZcw==?= Dimdows-on-ARM Doing?
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:02:09 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 19:43:58 -0500, Joel wrote:

> I only care to the extent that Winblows sells hardware ...

That hardware comes from the PC vendors, and their enthusiasm for Windows-
on-ARM is not exactly effusive as of late.

> But M$ is going to support it more and more, too, there's no reason it
> can't.

It’s not up to Microsoft. People don’t buy Windows machines for the sake 
of Windows; they buy it for the apps they need to run on it. That app 
support for running natively on ARM hasn’t exactly set the world on fire, 
as I pointed out in the posting that started this thread.