If the Surface Pro X fails, the value of the Surface brand will also be hurt. However, I was very surprised that Microsoft released a product with Surface brand. The announcement was not a big surprise because HP or Samsung products are already on the market. Microsoft recently announced the Surface Pro X at a Surface event. From the first announcement until recently, I was still interested in Windows 10 on ARM. I was hit hard by Surface RT and hit hard by Windows Phone, but I’m still interested. There are no native apps for ARM.īut I am interested in Windows 10 on ARM as a software engineer. But I think the future of WIndows 10 on ARM is pessimistic. I know how many engineers have been struggling to develop Windows 10 on ARM. Since then, several companies, including Samsung, ASUS and HP, have released experimental devices for Windows 10 on ARM.Īfter suffering greatly from Surface RT, I had to take a very pessimistic view. Why do I have to do this? I thought a thousand times that.Īnd a few years ago, Microsoft announced that it was developing a complete Window 10 OS that works on ARM devices. I spent a lot of time porting my game that I developed with win32 to UWP App. At this time, UWP APIs are definitely much better, but UWP API still have limited functionality compared to Win32 APIs. And while my complaints were reduced, they were still not satisfactory.Ī large part of the complaint is that UWP APIs must be used to develop software for Windows on ARM devices. In the era of Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10, the development environment has improved a lot. Of course, I was very disappointed with early Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT.

Using Visual Studio, I can develop Windows applications that run on ARM Device! So I was very excited when I heard about NT kernel-based Windows running on a CPU other than x86.

Windows programming with Visual Studio is fun. Of course, I don’t have much attachment to Windows 3.1 and 95, but I really love Windows after the NT kernel.

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