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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/16/2021 5:22 PM, Michael S wrote:
> 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".
> 
> 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.

The in house business app GUI's that are not web GUI's are likely
written in .NET today and should run fine on Windows ARM.

> 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.

I don't see it either.

If Android tablets was super popular then having a single app run on
both Windows ARM and Android tablet could be nice, but iOS tablets seems
way more popular than Android tablets.

Arne