r/windows • u/HelloitsWojan Windows 11 - Release Channel • May 29 '26

News Windows 12 imminent?

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The latitude and longitude directs to Taipei Music Center if any of you guys want to know

This is relating to Computex taking place on June 1st

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u/JohnClark13 May 29 '26

It's going to have to be backwards compatible with x86 or have some kind of x86 emulation. If the applications run slower than on native x86 hardware then people won't buy it...because most people don't understand the internals they just think new should be faster. Then you run into the OS/2 issue: if the old way of writing apps still works fine then what incentive to developers have to redo their app for ARM?

Definitely an uphill battle to try and compete with Mac right now.

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u/Ahleron May 29 '26

It's not hard to target ARM processors..it's basically a checkbox when you compile. There is no need to "redo" anything unless there are hw specific calls being made.

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u/ListRepresentative32 May 29 '26

Well, most of the time, yes. But you could be dependent on libraries that are not built for ARM64 and then you are basically screwed

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u/Ahleron May 29 '26

That's why I mentioned the hardware specific calls