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Re:Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of u... by jameshart on Friday October 06, 2023 @09:28PM (#37798271)
Right, Windows NT was shipped on PowerPC, MIPS and Alpha up until 1999; Then MS shipped Windows Server on IA64 Itanium from around that time right up to 2010, alongside the x64 version - including shipping IA64 versions of .NET, SQL Server, etc. And they began shipping Windows on ARM with WindowsRT in 2011.

I actually don't think there has been any significant period where Microsoft was only shipping core Windows operating systems on only x86. It's possible that's actually a deliberate strategy.

But to your point, what they have never been able to do was persuade any significant part of the ecosystem to notice.

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Re:Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of u... by jwells89 on Saturday October 07, 2023 @01:29AM (#37799216)
There was also a PowerPC build of Windows XP, which was preloaded on Xbox 360 dev kits (which were ironically PowerMac G5 towers configured to roughly match 360 hardware).
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Re:Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of u... by hulitu on Saturday October 07, 2023 @06:57AM (#37800667)
> Right, Windows NT was shipped on PowerPC, MIPS and Alpha up until 1999

Were there any compilers for those architectures from Microsoft ?

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Re:Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of u... by rsaxvc on Saturday October 07, 2023 @09:43AM (#37801633)
Yep, you could get visual studio processor packs in the mail. At least for ppc and mips.
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Re:Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of u... by maximilianburke on Saturday October 07, 2023 @09:43AM (#37801635)
Yes. How else would they build their OS and applications?
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Re:Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of u... by jkestner on Saturday October 07, 2023 @09:55AM (#37801714)
It’s a lot easier to make the devs move when you control the hardware too.
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