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There have been rumors of a 'surface phone' that runs Win 10 (not mobile) for a couple years now. Most expected some kind of future Intel chip to enable that, but ARM support certainly opens up the possibility. Just what Windows phones need - another OS change!
I wonder if this ends up being the inheritor of Windows CE for embedded ARM-flavoured devices. I also wonder if this means that the Win10 ARM kernel has the full Windows API - so if you built an ARM PE executable that could run natively. I suspect 95% of the pieces are in place for that but it's not yet been productised.
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Was the SurfaceRT an ARM device? I have one collecting dust, would be nice if it got an update
Yes. The RT devices ran ARM, which was one of the reasons for the locked down software policy (nothing else would run anyway).
There have been rumors of a 'surface phone' that runs Win 10 (not mobile) for a couple years now. Most expected some kind of future Intel chip to enable that, but ARM support certainly opens up the possibility. Just what Windows phones need - another OS change!
I'd be very interested in a Windows 10 phone if it has automatic updates that do not depend on the carrier, to avoid the Android situation where only certain phones get updates on a timely basis.
(Although I'm in the UK, where the carriers are less abusive)
There have been rumors of a 'surface phone' that runs Win 10 (not mobile) for a couple years now. Most expected some kind of future Intel chip to enable that, but ARM support certainly opens up the possibility. Just what Windows phones need - another OS change!
I'd be very interested in a Windows 10 phone if it has automatic updates that do not depend on the carrier, to avoid the Android situation where only certain phones get updates on a timely basis.
Microsoft has chosen to drop a lot of older models from the Creator's Update, but is still providing cumulative/security updates to the Anniversary Update right now, which is supported on all phones which run Windows 10 Mobile.
At least, at present, if you have a Windows 10 Mobile device, you have recent security updates, regardless of make or model.
Man, that League of Legends desktop icon on the test machine is such a tease. I would love to know what the status of x86 gaming on ARM devices would be, especially for something competitive that runs on most anything like LoL
HN is probably not the right target for this type of device. Either way we need Windows 10 on ARM to succeed for Intel to have more competition. I also do think it will be successful if it works at least as well as Intel's Atom-based Celeron and Pentium laptop chips, especially in emerging markets. Intel shot itself in the foot by replacing the Core architecture in mobile Celerons and Pentiums with Atom, and also by…
Man, that League of Legends desktop icon on the test machine is such a tease. I would love to know what the status of x86 gaming on ARM devices would be, especially for something competitive that runs on most anything like LoL
I hope they drop this on the surface 2. It would save it from being a paper weight.
A qualified guess would be that you can just install it, because the bootloader is Microsoft signed so it would pass the secure boot check. Edit: Apparently Surface 2 isn't AArch64, so probably not.
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I'd be very interested in a Windows 10 phone if it has automatic updates that do not depend on the carrier, to avoid the Android situation where only certain phones get updates on a timely basis.
Windows 10 Mobile gets OS updates directly from Microsoft. Verizon does not support Windows 10 Mobile at all , but my four year old Verizon Lumia Icon got Windows 10 version 14393.1198, which released yesterday, yesterday. Microsoft has chosen to drop a lot of older models from the Creator's Update, but is still providing cumulative/security updates to the Anniversary Update right now, which is supported on all phone…