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Re:Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11 by thesuperbigfrog on Sunday December 11, 2022 @02:18PM (#33946459)
My Android phone runs native Microsoft Office apps, so we are half-way there.

I am just waiting for Microsoft to give up on Windows-on-Arm and instead create a Microsoft-branded Linux distribution that has an actual Windows subsystem for Linux (that is, a compatibility / emulation layer similar to Wine or Proton to run legacy Windows software).

Decades of backward compatibility makes Windows a resource hog. I do not think it can make the jump to Arm or RISC-V easily.

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Re:Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11 by Godel_unicode on Sunday December 11, 2022 @03:00PM (#33946862)
Huh? The move from x86 is hampered by making binaries compiled for x86 work on ARM, it has nothing to do with performance.
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