These portable devices, whether a laptop form-factor device or convertible-tablet, offer great performance, battery life, and run the growing array of Arm-native developer tools.
Several Arm-powered devices are already available, including Surface Pro X and devices from our OEM partners, including the Lenovo ThinkPad X13S. Arm developer devicesĭevelopers need Arm devices upon which to build and test Arm-native Windows apps. Details are coming soon regarding when cloud-hosted Arm CI/CD services will become available. In late Summer 2022, Microsoft will begin work to port the CI/CD automation runner/agent shared by Azure DevOps and GitHub. Most developers also rely on build and test automation via Continual Integration / Continual Deployment (CI/CD), often hosted in cloud services, like Azure DevOps or GitHub. Which is why Microsoft's Azure team recently announced a preview of their new Arm Virtual Machines service and will soon be previewing Arm Containers via Azure Kubernetes Services. Many developers today also rely on Virtual Machines and Containers. See the announcement from Build 2022 about this comprehensive suite of tools, services, and devices that enable developers to build and port apps that natively target Arm just as easily as when targeting 圆4. Microsoft is also working with several 3rd parties and open-source communities to port common tools, runtimes, frameworks and libraries to natively target Windows on Arm.
Microsoft is working to deliver an Arm-native developer toolset that includes Arm-native Visual Studio 2022, VSCode, VC++ toolchain, classic. Windows 11 adds the ability to run unmodified 圆4 Windows apps on Arm devices! This ability to run x86 & 圆4 apps on Arm devices gives end-users confidence that the majority of their existing apps & tools will run well even on new Arm-powered devices.įor the best performance, responsiveness, and battery life, users will want and need Arm-native Windows apps, which means that developers will need to build or port Arm-native Windows apps.
Windows 10 enables existing unmodified x86 apps to run on Arm devices. Arm Systems on Chip (SoC) often include other key features such as a powerful CPU, GPU, Wi-Fi & mobile data networks, as well as Neural Processor Units (NPUs) for accelerating AI workloads. Windows has traditionally run on machines that are powered by x86 / 圆4 processors, but more recently, also runs on devices powered by Arm processors.Īrm-powered devices are particularly interesting because the power-frugal nature of the Arm architecture enables these devices to offer longer battery life while delivering great performance.