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ARM is the future of desktop

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Graeme Geldenhuys
to Santiago A.
Santiago A. wrote
Here is an interesting article by a ex-windows boss. He thinks that in a few years even desktops will be ARM and Intel will be residual. And obviously it will be a mayor problem to Microsoft, whose software is very tied to Intel platform.

Obviously he would say that - working for Apple. Apple marketing at work. :-D

Not just that... Considering that Apple-on-the-Desktop market share is only around 9% (as or Jun 2020). I don't think Microsoft has anything to worry about just yet - sitting at a comfortable 87% market share as of Jun 2020.[1]

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https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22%24and%22%3A%5B%7B%22deviceType%22%3A%7B%22%24in%22%3A%5B%22Desktop%2Flaptop%22%5D%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Trend%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22platform%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22platformsDesktop%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222019-07%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222020-06%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D

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Graeme

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Sven Barth
to Santiago A.: Hello: Here is an interesting article by a ex-windows boss. He thinks that in a few years…
Santiago A. wrote 8 lines
Hello: Here is an interesting article by a ex-windows boss. He thinks that in a few years even desktops will be ARM and Intel will be residual. And obviously it will be a mayor problem to Microsoft, whose software is very tied to Intel platform. https://www.zdnet.com/article/ex-windows-boss-apples-arm-based-mac-will-be-the-ultimate-developer-pc/

Windows 10 nowadays supports both ARM and ARM64, so I see no problem there.

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Sven

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Marco van de Voort
to Sven Barth

Op 2020-07-04 om 23:14 schreef Sven Barth via fpc-other:

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> > Here is an interesting article by a ex-windows boss. He thinks that > in a few years even desktops will be ARM and Intel will be residual. > And obviously it will be a mayor problem to Microsoft, whose software > is very tied to Intel platform. > > https://www.zdnet.com/article/ex-windows-boss-apples-arm-based-mac-will-be-the-ultimate-developer-pc/ > Windows 10 nowadays supports both ARM and ARM64, so I see no problem there.

And it is from Sinofsky, who is considered to be good in the tech department, but bad in the visionary department (he was resposible for the tanked Windows 8 "vision", and Microsofts failed ventures in the phone and tablet world)

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Florian Klämpfl
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Marco van de Voort wrote 19 lines
Op 2020-07-04 om 23:14 schreef Sven Barth via fpc-other: > >> >> Here is an interesting article by a ex-windows boss. He thinks that >> in a few years even desktops will be ARM and Intel will be residual. >> And obviously it will be a mayor problem to Microsoft, whose software >> is very tied to Intel platform. >> >> https://www.zdnet.com/article/ex-windows-boss-apples-arm-based-mac-will-be-the-ultimate-developer-pc/ >> > > Windows 10 nowadays supports both ARM and ARM64, so I see no problem > there. > And it is from Sinofsky, who is considered to be good in the tech department, but bad in the visionary department (he was resposible for the tanked Windows 8 "vision", and Microsofts failed ventures in the phone and tablet world)

I stopped taking it serious when I read "iPad", "work" and "touch" in combination. While I have a current iPad, it is still no more than a better ebook, pdf and web page reader for me. Even answering mails works that bad that I prefer typically to wait till I have a real keyboard to type it.

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