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Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4 is now live. It is the first release of the IDE to have native support for Arm64, and it also packs the latest version of .NET. A preview for version 17.5 is ready too.

Usama Jawad · Nov 8, 2022 with 7 comments

Microsoft has announced that its ARM64EC application binary interface (ABI) is now fully supported on Windows 11 on ARM. It allows developers to mix and match x64 and ARM code in a single codebase.

Usama Jawad · Aug 10, 2022 · Hot! with 3 comments

With today's Windows Insider Preview build in the Dev channel, Windows on ARM users can now run emulated x64 apps, opening the door to a much wider range to app compatibility, such as Adobe CC.

Rich Woods · Dec 10, 2020 with 35 comments

Microsoft today made the long-awaited announcement that you'll be able to run AMD64 apps in emulation on Windows on ARM. It's coming to all generations of the platform, back to the Snapdragon 835.

Rich Woods · Sep 30, 2020 · Hot! with 25 comments

We exclusively reported last year that Microsoft is working on support for 64-bit Intel (x86) apps for Windows 10 on ARM. Now, a code commit on GitHub by Microsoft further confirms those efforts.

Abhay V · May 18, 2020 · Hot! with 10 comments

Current Windows on ARM PCs can only run native ARM64 apps and emulated 32-bit Intel apps, but that's all going to change. Microsoft is working to bring 64-bit emulation to the platform.

Rich Woods · Nov 13, 2019 · Hot! with 22 comments

According to reports, Microsoft will be releasing an ARM64 SDK at its Build 2018 developer conference in May. Unfortunately, it still doesn't solve the problem of currently unsupported x64 apps.

Rich Woods · Apr 5, 2018 · Hot! with 42 comments

Mozilla seems to have finally decided that a 64-bit version of its popular Firefox browser is a worthy project to focus on. Unfortunately the first such version is only expected to launch next year.

Vlad Dudau · Oct 3, 2014 · Hot! with 57 comments