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Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by macintux on Monday May 20, 2024 @05:01PM (#40420340)
Microsoft has no courage. They have to keep catering to every possible audience, so they’re not willing to pull the plug on x86, which means ARM will always play second fiddle.
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Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by makeitdouble on Monday May 20, 2024 @07:23PM (#40421855)
> Microsoft has no courage

Sadly the headphone jack is definitely dead.

> They have to keep catering to every possible audience

That's not Microsoft's job at this point, they heavily invest and push the envelop where makers don't want to take the risk, but from there it's for Lenovo, Dell, HP, Asus etc. to decide what they want to market and which chip to push. The same way some of them put weight behind AMD while other went full Intel 100% of the time.

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Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by Dalewyn on Monday May 20, 2024 @06:29PM (#40421237)
Microsoft and Windows (and by extension x86) achieved their desktop market dominance by respecting that most people want backwards compatibility.

Everything that has tried to go or is going against that tide either failed (eg: Itanium, Windows RT) or never had market share to lose in the first place (eg: MacOS, Linux in the consumer space).

Microsoft would be stupid to be "courageous" and drop backwards compatibility, that would even trump Apple's courage abandoning the headphone jack. It also makes business sense to keep your eggs in multiple baskets, assuming those baskets are each commercially viable.

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