[Info-vax] VSI licensing policy (again), was: Re: VSI has a new CEO

[Michael S]

On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 11:18:57 PM UTC+3, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/16/2021 7:10 AM, Michael S wrote: 
> > On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 7:53:08 AM UTC+3, dgso... at gmail.com wrote: 
> >> Are people actually asking to run windows on ARM computers? 
> > 
> > Why would they? 
> > Why would "normal" people at all care about CPU architecture they are running?
> Unless emulation is extremely good and extremely fast then they care 
> about getting something that can run the software they want to use 
> and have used previously. 
> 
> Remember that at one time the definition of "IBM compatible PC" 
> was "being able to run Lotus 1-2-3". 
> 
> Arne

Right now that's a reason to ask to for x86 rather than for Arm.

According to my understanding, not many apps are readily available on WinArm in native form
apart from Microsoft Office suite and Firefox.
But in theory, most of in-house stuff nowadays is written in .Net, so don't even need recompile 
and most of Open Source stuff is, in theory, is not hard to recompile, assuming that Windows 
version is properly maintained.
I never was interested enough to test to which degree a practice matches a theory.

For Win11 for Arm, Microsoft will try to push ability to run Android apps as an advantage.
I have no idea how many people really want to run Android apps on their laptops. 
I certainly don't,  but I don't pretend to be typical.