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posted by martyb on Thursday July 18 2019, @10:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the implementation-cost-an-ARM-*and*-a-leg? dept.

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.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/2-years-later-theres-still-no-windows-server-arm-in-microsoft-azure/


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Friday July 19 2019, @12:18AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 19 2019, @12:18AM (#868750) Journal

    Therefore, there must be no market.

    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.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @02:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @02:59AM (#868804)

    do you really care if they are running on Xeon, I9, AMD or ARM?

    I suppose that depends on which side channel attacks you want to be vulnerable to.