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

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Tuesday, August 17, 2021 at 9:23:00 AM UTC+12, Michael S wrote:
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> According to my understanding, not many apps are readily available on WinArm in native form 
> apart from Microsoft Office suite and Firefox.

On top of which, Microsoft’s x86 emulator only handles 32-bit code, not AMD64. The only thing that makes that palatable is the fact that much of Windows code never made the transition to 64-bit anyway.

> But in theory, most of in-house stuff nowadays is written in .Net ...

What, not Dotnet Core? What happened to Win64? Silverlight? WinRT? UWP? How many versions of “Project Reunion” have there been?

I don’t think Windows developers can say with any certainty right now which of Microsoft’s many platform APIs is the “core” one going forward...