[WhereIsTheTruth]

> Anticipation of what?

> it won't get the attention it needs until attractive hardware is ready to ship.

Dunno what to say!

Windows RT is the perfect example; software was not ready, and is still not

It's only been 11 months that Visual Studio can run on ARM

[delfinom]

>It's only been 11 months that Visual Studio can run on ARM

It's only been 3 years since Visual Studio runs in 64-bit on x86 ;)

I think the biggest holdback for VS with ARM was there were no good build boxes out there. With VS for ARM, Microsoft released their own ARM dev kit hardware loaded with 32gigs of ram and a snapdragon 8cx. Anyone else selling ARM hardware for Windows skimps with like 4g of ram.

VS could however crosscompile to ARM32 and later ARM64 for quite awhile.

[smoldesu]

Dotnet Core and Mono both supported AArch64 targets long before Apple Silicon existed, too. I think characterizing Microsoft as "lazy" in regards to RISC is wrong from a pragmatic point-of-view.

[bhouston]

I think unlike Apple, Microsoft doesn’t commit to Arm. And because it doesn’t commit it doesn’t truly invest like Apple in ensuring success.