Apple M1 is directly needed for the excellent software adaptation work carried out by the major outstanding developers. Speaking of these excellent software developers, Microsoft, which has quickly adapted to Office Family Bucket, is even more impressive.
Perhaps it is the outstanding performance of M1 that makes Microsoft regain confidence in the Windows experience on the ARM platform. According to foreign media reports, recently, Microsoft has begun an attempt to adapt the modular Windows 10X system to more size ARM devices. This means that we may have more ARM-based convertibles and notebooks available in the future.
Although as early as October 2019, Microsoft introduced Windows 10X to the public, due to compatibility issues, Microsoft has only provided support for Intel chip devices before.
Now that Microsoft starts internal testing of Windows 10X features on other hardware, it means that partners can finally get the ARM-based test version, and the launch of new ARM-based devices in the future is also more promising.
Compared with traditional Intel devices, ARM chip solutions not only consume less power but also tend to be much cheaper in price. And the ARM processor, even in daily application scenarios such as video playback, rendering, document operation, and web browsing, can maintain a processing speed consistent or similar to those of high-performance platforms.
Compared with traditional devices, these more affordable devices are more suitable for students and some company employees.
However, from the performance of the ARM processor-based Surface Pro X that Microsoft previously launched. In the future, Windows 10X may still use UWP applications and newly-added PWA applications as the main ecology, and only retain support for some 32-bit X86 applications, and through its cloud PC business, to meet users’ needs for high-performance desktop applications.
