Subj : Re: Operating Systems
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Thu Apr 11 2024 06:23:58

On 10 Apr 2024 at 10:55a, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>   Re: Re: Operating Systems
 Ni>   By: fusion to tenser on Wed Apr 10 2024 12:17 pm
 Ni> 
 Ni>  te>> Very likely that, in 2038, they'll be running win32 under an emulato
 Ni>  te>> well.
 Ni> 
 Ni>  fu> apparently microsoft has just gotten their intel-on-arm emulation mat
 Ni>  fu> in speed with apple's. pretty likely we're going to have official sup
 Ni>  fu> for win32 (the api) and x86 & x86_64 for more than 14 years..
 Ni> 
 Ni> I wonder how many people will be using ARM-based Wnidows machines
 Ni> though.  I've heard of Microsoft working on that, but at least right
 Ni> now, I haven't seen anyone using an ARM Windows machine, either at work
 Ni> or for personal use.

"It all depends."

The era of x86 on the "desktop" is likely drawing to a conclusion.
We've got a few more generations and probably another 10 years or
so, and then it's going to be mostly ARM and RISC-V.  x86 will
remain on the high-end in the server space for a while, but will
probably asymptotically trend towards 0% of the market, kind of
like the mainframe.

Microsoft is not stupid.  They see the trend and will react
accordingly, for as long as they intend to keep Windows as a going
concern (likely forever, but probably in a somewhat diminished
form, perhaps moving in favor of Linux over time).

What you see _now_ has nothing to do with what you'll see in 2038.

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