By: Beastian (no.email.delete@this.aol.com), July 1, 2021 1:48 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/06/28/announcing-arm64ec-building-native-and-interoperable-apps-for-windows-11-on-arm/
Microsoft seems entirely reliant on ARM for its non-PC compute in devices like hololens, and is plowing extensive resources into engineering compatibility solutions like this for its more traditional platforms. Looks like Windows on ARM is here to stay.
Internally, we’ve rebuilt the binaries of the Windows 11 on ARM operating system itself with ARM64EC so that any system code loaded by x64 apps runs with native speed. In addition, the Office team is using ARM64EC in the coming 64-bit Office for ARM so that existing x64 plugins will work seamlessly.
Microsoft seems entirely reliant on ARM for its non-PC compute in devices like hololens, and is plowing extensive resources into engineering compatibility solutions like this for its more traditional platforms. Looks like Windows on ARM is here to stay.