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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 21 2018, @05:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the it'll-run-just-fine-trust-me dept.

Microsoft accidentally reveals Windows 10 on ARM limitations

Microsoft launched ARM-powered Windows 10 PCs with "all-day" battery life back in December. While HP, Asus, and Lenovo's devices aren't on sale just yet, we're still waiting to hear more about the limitations of Windows 10 running on these new PCs. Microsoft published a full list of limitations last week, spotted first by Thurrott, that details what to expect from Windows 10 on ARM. This list must have been published by accident, as the software giant removed it over the weekend so only cached copies of the information are available.

Only ARM64 drivers are supported and no x64 applications are supported (yet). Games that use a version of OpenGL later than 1.1, hardware-accelerated OpenGL, or "anticheat technologies" won't work on Windows 10 on ARM. The Windows Hypervisor Platform is not supported on ARM.

Also at Engadget and ZDNet.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 21 2018, @10:28PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 21 2018, @10:28PM (#641445) Journal

    In its struggle for relevance, Microsoft opens up .NET, and SQL Server to run on Linux. And offers Windows Subsystem for Linux to run Linux software on Windows OS.

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