Forget about Windows
FTFY
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RISC-V is not proprietary enough.
as it’s seen as a threat to the tech that the US can influence or outright exert control over
Good
It’s a RISC they are not willing to take.
ba dum tsss
Why would anyone do that? Even Windows on ARM is only a desperate move by Microsoft to make an appearence of keeping up with times, but RISC-V?
They tried Windows on Itanium and on Alpha. I think the biggest issue is even though the OS could be recompiled, most apps are not compiled at install in order to take advantage of the underlying platform. You saw a similar issue with the original Surface being ARM only. Sure the OS was there but people couldn’t run the Windows apps they were used to and Microsoft got held responsible rather than the developers.
Alternatively you’d have to put an x86 emulation layer which would slow apps down and people would again ask “why?”
One of the great advantages of software distributed with the source code is the flexibility to move to different platforms and architectures. I wonder if moving to a snap/flatpak model will change this flexibility in the future.
They tried that, it’s called UWP. A lot of programs don’t want to be distributed through the microsoft store though, forcing them to use “old” .exe’s
God knows I don’t want that crap either. They’re always bastardized versions of full apps.
Hmm I wonder why MS has spent so much time converting office apps to run on webview2…
Emulation worked (and still works) great when Apple switched from x86 to ARM. It can be done.
Also when Mac went from PPC to x86
