

Microsoft confirms apps must be ported for ARM devices on Windows 8





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Well hopefully
By FITCamaro on 9/19/2011 8:34:24 AM , Rating: 2
They will make it so that through Visual Studio you can write the code once and it'll compile an executable for both.

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By Master Kenobi (blog) on 9/19/2011 12:07:13 PM , Rating: 2
Most likely. Microsoft spends quite a bit of effort making sure Visual Studio continues to be a top notch product.

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By gamerk2 on 9/19/2011 1:16:16 PM , Rating: 2
If that were the case, and all developers would be nice enough to re-compile code, then we still wouldn't be using X86 exe's on 64-bit OS's, and Itanium wouldn't have a lack of software support.

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Itanium is a dead product.

Why Microsoft should support it...

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By Trisped on 9/20/2011 12:56:42 PM , Rating: 1
There are reasons to keep producing 32bit applications.
If you don't need to address over 4GB of RAM a 32bit program will usually run faster then a 64bit.

The big push to upgrade Windows to 64bit is because the 32bit version can only support 3GB of RAM. That means every program running on your computer must fit into this limited space, including the OS.

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Thats not exactly true.
Same goes for for 64bit instructions and computing.

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By TomZ on 9/19/2011 3:24:56 PM , Rating: 2

That will work for new apps (using Metro), but any apps you have written in the past targeting Windows will have to be ported or re-written.

I'm sure a lot of Windows developers hoped or assumed that they could recompile their MFC/WinForms/WPF/etc. apps using a newer version of Visual Studio and have them run on ARM. Sounds like that is not going to be the case. That is a big disappointment.

If this is the situation, then Windows 8 on ARM has very little benefit compared to the typical iPad or Android tablet available today. Why bother, quite frankly? Windows 8 on ARM is just going to get caught up in the "race to the bottom" with all the other tablets.

RE: Well hopefully
By someguy123 on 9/19/2011 11:20:47 PM , Rating: 2
This is just another platform to support. You act like this is any different from software on current ARM tablets. There has never been direct compatibility when going from x86 to ARM, but that hasn't stopped people from developing ios exclusive content or porting it on various platforms.

What do you expect them to do, pretend it doesn't exist?

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