[Info-vax] Microsoft On ARM Failure (was Re: VSI licensing policy (again))

[chris]

On 09/24/21 00:26, David Goodwin wrote:

> On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 11:18:14 AM UTC+12, Dave Froble wrote:
> It may be worth asking what does it cost *not* to?
>
> If everything you do is in a web browser there isn't really much keeping you on
> Windows. If ARM powered Macs get better battery life then your x86 PC for the
> same performance that may be enough for Microsoft to loose a customer. It may
> be enough for Microsoft to loose *a lot* of customers.
>
> Better for Microsoft if its a Microsoft product competing with x86 Windows
> than some other companies product.

I think the real issue of arm and windows is related to standards, When
IBM brought out their first pc, it quickly became a standard hw platform
that many others cloned. What ARM really needs is for a major vendor or
industry group to create a standard platform, or reference model, which
will then make it worthwhile for Microsoft to invest in building windows
for Arm. Arm are already more than powerful enough for general desktop
use, but the market is far too fragmented at present, for that to
happen...

Chris