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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Can you buy licenses?

    I can’t, but OEMs can.

    Why haven’t all manufacturers making and selling ARM tablets / laptops with Windows ARM then?

    Because no one was buying them.

    Microsoft was pushing to make this happen extra hard with Windows 8 or so. They’ve kept it alive since then. It’s revived a bit once they started seeing ChromeOS devices start taking over the low end of the market.

    But the available ARM processors kinda sucked; the price difference at the low end wasn’t enough for consumers in most cases: low margins are a demotivator for manufacturers; Intel and AMD got better low-power, low-price options; app availability was/is a big problem, etc.

    But you can buy Windows ARM laptops and things from Samsung, Lenovo, a few others right now. The others don’t care, mostly still for the reasons above.













  • Unfortunately, sometimes they can’t determine reproduction steps because it’s rare to happen and required multiple things, or they just didn’t catch it. I definitely don’t blame them, at least not in a lot of cases.

    And sometimes logs or crash dump or whatever is all you need to figure out the bug anyway. In fact, ideally it should be more often than not.