Windows Server on ARM was announced to much fanfare in March 2017, with servers powered by Qualcomm Centriq 2400 and Cavium ThunderX2 processors co-developed with Microsoft showcased at the OCP US Summit. At the time, Azure vice president Jason Zander told Bloomberg that "this is a significant commitment on behalf of Microsoft. We wouldn't even bring something to a conference if we didn't think this was a committed project and something that's part of our road map."
That road map has quite clearly hit a dead end—a lack of updates from Microsoft of the subject, and the absence of any partners involved with the project (or companies in the ARM-for-servers market generally) at this year's Microsoft Inspire conference strongly indicates the initiative is dead.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Friday July 19 2019, @12:18AM (1 child)
When everything is in the cloud and what you have/need, as a customer, is a bunch of API to interact with your "apps"**, do you really care if they are running on Xeon, I9, AMD or ARM?
The choice of supporting ARM or not is mostly a problem for the cloud-provider - e.g. can *they* drive their cost of "clouding" down and offer cheaper service tiers?
** most of the Azure is SaaS and storage, I doubt anyone in their full mind would choose to "compute" on Windows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @02:59AM
I suppose that depends on which side channel attacks you want to be vulnerable to.