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Exactly; they got that out of their system with Windows RT. (And apparently the upcoming Windows 10 for ARM will ship with Win32 support via emulation.)



Windows 10 on ARM has been shipping for over a year, and it has an x86 (but not x86-64) emulator.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/


Oops, thanks— clearly I’ve not been following things too closely!

(I think I wrongly assumed it wasn’t out yet since I hadn’t heard of a new ARM-based Surface release.)


Win32 is an OS API, which doesn't necessarily relate to the CPU or other chipset members. Do you mean it will Win10 for ARM will support code targetted at ia32/amd64 CPUs via emulation?




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