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Microsoft is no longer bringing x64 emulation to Windows 10 on ARM
Last December, Microsoft announced that it would bring x64 emulation to Windows 10 on ARM, a feature missing from the fledgling OS. Windows 10 on ARM already supported x86 emulation but making sure you have a 32-bit installer is not ideal. Initially, Microsoft brought x64 emulation to the Windows Insider Program, although you need a preview version of the Qualcomm Adreno graphics driver for some ARM machines that supported Windows 10 ARM.
Since then, Microsoft has released Windows 11, including an ARM version. For some reason, the company has now decided to quietly drop any intentions of integrating x64 emulation within Windows 10 on ARM. Inexplicably, it only confirmed this change in a Windows Blogs post where most people would miss it.
Windows Insider blog. Also at The Verge.
Previously: Microsoft Document Details Windows 10 on ARM Limitations
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 19 2021, @10:48PM
It matters because Windows invaded the ARM space to beat out any hope of competition. But consumers aren't smart enough to know the difference so they buy, what they've been told, is a Windows compatible "whatever" that will run all the same software. And Microsoft promised as much. Now that promise turns out to be a lie. And anyone who buys Windows on ARM was doomed from the start. As they always have been.