Microsoft Store Starts Accepting Windows 10 on ARM Apps (venturebeat.com) 35
Microsoft announced Friday that it is opening up its online apps store to 64-bit ARM app submissions from developers, further cementing its commitment to make Windows 10 on ARM a viable platform. From a report: Also, with the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 this week, developers can now create ARM64 apps using officially supported SDK and tools. Microsoft announced Windows 10 on ARM in December 2017 with three big feature promises: The screen turns on "instantly," unlike existing PCs; LTE is built right in; and the battery can last for days. But the unveiling came with a big caveat. These Always Connected PCs, as Microsoft and Qualcomm call them, were not coming anytime soon. [...] Microsoft wants to help address the performance problems by getting developers to rebuild apps for the platform. Developers can now use Visual Studio 15.9 to recompile UWP and C++ Win32 apps to run natively on Windows 10 on ARM devices.
Will they accept Firefox and LibreOffice? (Score:2)
Linux (Score:2)
Just use the mighty penguin :=)
Re: (Score:2)
Provided that "the mighty penguin" 1. is even allowed to boot and 2. has drivers for the ARM device's hardware.
The floodgates opened... (Score:2)
Re: The floodgates opened... (Score:2)
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If it tasted like vegemite I'd have some every morning
And the first step (Score:2)
Is always "embrace."
can't embrace. (Score:2)
Problem is, they are limited to their too small arm length, and they can't embrace.
What'S next ?
Linux.
I still don't get the point of .NET (Score:3)
.NET is nearly 20 years old now. And developers still need to recompile their code (and sometimes write different set of code) for the different platforms, for 32bit, 64bit different CPU's such as ARM. .NET is still the performance of Java, with the platform independence of writing and compiling in C/C++. .NET runs a tad faster then Java, and the executable is a bit more more portable then a system level compile.
OK, I am being a little exaggerated.
But still, In this day and age, ARM apps should be the same as Intel Apps if coded in pure .NET and the migration to 64bit OS should had been much more smoother then it was.
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.NET is nearly 20 years old now. And developers still need to recompile their code (and sometimes write different set of code) for the different platforms, for 32bit, 64bit different CPU's such as ARM.
Not if they compiled their code for "AnyCPU" in the first place. I've never needed a different set of code for 32bit versus 64bit with .NET, and I can't think of a case where it would be required if you're talking about pure .NET code.
For various definitions of fixed (Score:2)
Microsoft announced Friday that it is opening up its online apps store to 64-bit ARM app submissions from developers, further cementing its commitment to take a cut of every app sale on Windows just like on phones.
FTFY
Me so shocked! (Score:2)
You mean Microsoft is implementing pay-as-you go for their OS and support apps?
My goodness, who could have seen that coming?
Seriously, though- this is the holy grail of their whole future as a corporation- renting Windows as a monthly pay-as-you-go service.