Microsoft is considering launching a 64-bit emulator to run 64-bit applications
Microsoft Windows 10 on ARM has an advantage in mobile network connectivity and energy efficiency, but application compatibility is too bad. In principle, the platform can only download ARM-compatible UWP applications through the app store. In addition, Microsoft introduced the x86 emulator to simulate running 32-bit applications. Previous tests have shown that x86 emulators run 32-bit applications very poorly, so how to solve platform application compatibility problems is always a headache.
At the recent Microsoft Summit, the company mentioned that although the current Windows 10 on the ARM platform cannot run 64-bit applications, the situation may change. Recently, Microsoft also mentioned that it will build x64 emulators to let users run 64-bit applications, but Microsoft does not want a large number of applications to take the simulator.
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To be precise, Microsoft hopes that developers will be able to launch a dedicated ARM version instead of running through the emulator, and developers are not too concerned about the ARM platform. After all, the platform is currently very small in users and Microsoft is too lazy to update the documentation, so it is expected that the developer adaptation version looks like a fantasy. The tangled Microsoft wants developers to adapt to this new platform and is not willing to invest more manpower and resources on the platform.
The main reason why Microsoft does not want developers to run through the simulator is that the overall performance of the x64 simulator is even worse than the overall performance of the x86 simulator.
