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Re:Microsoft launches Windows 10 on ARM by microcolonel on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:25PM (#15855464)
> 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).

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Re:Microsoft launches Windows 10 on ARM by beagle3 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:14AM (#15860512)
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.
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