Re:Microsoft launches Windows 10 on ARM
by yuhong on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:22PM
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The Intel patents for up to SSE2 should expire soon, and hopefully the AMD64 patents should be licenseable from AMD (if they are interested in that). I would not be surprised if this already emulates up to SSE2, given the likely release date and the fact that recent versions of MSVC already enable /arch:SSE2 by default.
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Re:Microsoft launches Windows 10 on ARM
by microcolonel on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:25PM
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> I would not be surprised if this already emulates up to SSE2, given the likely release date.
Yeah, even if they could be sued, they could settle for a couple years damages max, or quite possibly win, since they're doing DBT (no different from QEMU or loads of other x86 + SSE2 emulators).
Re:Microsoft launches Windows 10 on ARM
by beagle3 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:14AM
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though it's worth remembering that QEMU developers do not have the deep pockets that MS has -- and it is the depth of the pockets, rather than the (alleged) violation that drives law suits and threats.