Incredible that Microsoft has dropped the ball so hard on this.

agreed. windows has been running on arm for what? a decade or more? and they made such a big deal out of these new laptops.

i've been crossing my fingers for this. I've got a surface pro 9 and while it's great, the battery life is awful considering the limited performance on tap. I'd love a surface with specs comparable to apple's M3.

hopefully they do like Intel did with their Arc cards and relentlessly pump out impressive fixes and improvements, but Microsoft being Microsoft, I'm not holding my breath on that one.

I wouldn't necessarily say that Microsoft dropped the ball here, I'd consider it growing pains. Also to my knowledge this is the first time they actually have a translation layer for 64bit applications.

Additionally, Fortnite and League of Legends require a Kernel-level anti cheat driver to be installed and active for you to be able to play the game. Adobe programs to my knowledge also have some nasty custom copy protection that's always running.

I would not be surprised if the incompatibility stemmed specifically from the anticheat and copy protection drivers, considering that there are no native Windows on ARM builds of those games / programs

Compare this to the M1 release. You only get one chance at a first impression.

To be honest it’s exactly what I expected from Microsoft. The last decade is just one embarrassment after another. It’s a wasteland of reality for Microsoft the ambitions are high but they never deliver. They are still running on their legacy and I am curious what will happen when the fumes finally evaporate.

Just in the last 4 weeks they fucked up recall, voided their security first empty promises, switched copilot on windows from a native app to a webview with less features, added fullscreen upgrade nag pop ups to windows 10, had a bug that bricked their own hardware… it’s hilarious.