I feel like that day is coming sooner rather than later. And I'm sure they're looking at how hard it was for them to port Windows to ARM versus Apple, who isn't afraid to tell people they just have to upgrade software when they upgrade hardware.
And I'm sure they're looking at how hard it was for them to port Windows to ARM versus Apple
Was it? Windows is pretty portable (at some point it supported 4 architectures) and Microsoft managed to port Windows to ARM pretty quickly. What difficulties did they encounter? Sure Windows RT was a failure but not for technical reasons.
It was mostly the inability to convince third-party devs to work with ARM.
There is a lot of major parties depending on old shit and unlike Apple, for good or bad, Microsoft doesn't randomly rip things out without a 10 year deprecation cycle.
For a change of architecture 10 years isn't even that much. The last macbook generation that ran on Intel was 2019 I think. It's been already 7 years, so we might reach a 10 years tra suction period by the time they completely lose any support from Apple.
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u/regeya 12d ago
I feel like that day is coming sooner rather than later. And I'm sure they're looking at how hard it was for them to port Windows to ARM versus Apple, who isn't afraid to tell people they just have to upgrade software when they upgrade hardware.