Microsoft shows how Windows 10 emulated on a Snapdragon 820 – Hypertext

ever Since Microsoft ceased development of Windows RT, the question latent, has always been, what is next? The universal application was a response to socks, and have not achieved their purpose of unity, something that has been evident in the decline of its mobile division. For this reason, Microsoft has wanted to leave the past behind you and has given you one of the biggest steps in years: Windows 10 the full will be compatible with chips ARM via emulation, and as you can see in the video, the result a priori is fantastic.

The video shows how, in a machine with a chip ARM Snapdragon 820 and 4 GB of RAM, specifications are very common along this 2016, Windows 10 can be moved with total ease in all sections of the system, from the Windows Explorer to the opening and the handling of demanding applications such as Adobe Photoshop, and to a lesser extent Microsoft Word. It is surprising that a function that currently is in development and that will not happen until the first half of 2017 work as well from the current moment, and even be able to move games. The best news for the developers, unlike what happened with Windows RT, is that you will not have to do anything to your applications, the emulation is total.

At first Microsoft will only support the emulation processor Snapdragon from Qualcomm, with the Snapdragon 835 next year between them. It is an open question to know if it will be possible to see this in the chips of other manufacturers, such as Samsung, but also be ARM, it is conceivable that the benefit of this emulation will not be complicated. And is that the implications in this regard are enormous. Not only will we see laptops economic with much more autonomy (for lack of knowing the impact energy of the emulation in the system), but convertibles, sticks, USBs or even smartphones that can move Windows to the full with a yield much greater than that offered under the last chipset mobile Intel.

A Microsoft decision that, in the last days of the PC as we know it, can upend the market

Not only is a giant step for Microsoft, it is a giant step for the industry. Samsung, for example, you could start making your TabPro without relying on Intel and adjusting the components completely to your choice, gaining the ability to make devices much thinner, and even more powerful than those that can now be build on the basis of the platform Core M. It also represents a movement that can change things in the mobile market, as it is technically possible for a smartphone to move apps to Windows desktop, with what this implies for convergence.

In that sense, this is the anticipated response of Microsoft to the expected attack of Google with Andromeda, which according to rumors will lead to the union of Android and Chrome OS, designed to corner the market of the laptops and convertible giving the system more capacity. In the same way that with Windows 10, it is expected that Andromeda power also to smartphones and with this, he can embrace-of-way invisible the expected convergence. 2017 is going to be a great year.