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Microsoft never forced developers to jump onto Arm the way Apple did.

That’s a key part in why Windows Arm is such a substandard experience.

The Windows executive in this article sounds delusional. He talks about how if the Surface Product line actually had footing, we’d eventually see Arm bases desktops under the Windows umbrella.

The Surface failed because Windows just isn’t cool. No one consciously buys a Windows PC. It’s either to play games or do work.

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Apple developers had jumped architectures more than a few times. They didn't break a sweatshop going to Apple Silicon.

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The point I’m trying to make isn’t that it was difficult. It’s that the transition was effective because they had to.

Unlike Windows with this grey area of Arm / x86.