XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: not@necessary.invalid   
      
   On 23 Jul 2025 02:46:50 GMT, rbowman wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:39:02 +0000, Tyrone wrote:   
   >   
   >> Actually Windows on Arm is just fine. I run it every day. The problem   
   >> is STILL that lots of business-critical stuff has not been recompiled   
   >> for Arm. So it either runs slowly in emulation or not at all, depending   
   >> on how badly it was written.   
   >>   
   >> Hard to blame MS for that. Hell, there are businesses STILL running old   
   >> DOS stuff and 16 bit Windows stuff.   
   >   
   > The history doesn't help. Windows RT left a bad taste. I don't use it   
   > and am pulling a name out of the air but Quciken gets mentioned as a   
   > problem with moving to Linux.   
   >   
   > Intuit, or whoever owns it now, already had the  experience of   
   > developing incompatible versions for Windows and Mac and should have   
   > corporate memories of the pain involved. Microsoft's first Arm attempt,   
   > RT, had the lifespan of a mayfly. Now they're trying again. I think the   
   > exclusive contract expired so now there may be other offerings but it   
   > isn't exactly making headlines.   
   >   
   > They would understandably be reluctant to do another port until they see   
   > if Windows on Arm has legs this time. Hopefully they do a better job of   
   > explaining that WoA isn't WoX64 this time so someone who loves Quicken   
   > realizes there isn't a native Arm version and it may run poorly or not   
   > at all in the emulator, so they aren't going to buy a Arm notebook. The   
   > Qucken people track the Arm sales and see they're soft which lessens the   
   > enthusiasm.   
   >   
   > Chicken and egg, and Microsoft has been burned by it before with the   
   > phone and RT.   
      
   Windows is too integrated into the x86 architecture at this point. They   
   need to re-write the kernel from scratch; and with the 30 year baggage   
   that they have (I'm being lenient and starting from Windows 95); it is a   
   tough ask. Microsoft are at the same boat they were with Edge -- build a   
   browser from scratch, and be left in the lurch; or just take up an open-   
   source fork of the most popular browser and add their own crap to it.   
   Since they can't rip off the Linux kernel without every single IT company   
   shoving their butts with lawsuits, they could just pull a PlayStation and   
   use the BSD kernel.   
      
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