Microsoft is finally rolling out x64 emulation on Windows 10 on ARM. With the launch of the Surface Pro X earlier this year, the corporate first mentioned its plan to bring x64 emulation to Windows PCs. Though it’s available at the moment, there’s still a catch. The x64 emulation is accessible only to Insiders within the Dev Channel.
This is a significant step in direction of making ARM devices running Windows 10 a little more competent, especially when Apple has switched its MacBook lineup over to ARM with its in-house Apple M1 chip. Apple offers Rosetta 2 to make Intel apps accessible on the Mac.
“With developers increasingly supporting ARM64 apps natively, emulating x64 apps is an important step in our journey with Windows 10 on ARM,” added the blog post. Microsoft cites the example of productivity apps like Autodesk Sketchbook and games like Rocket League. It is now possible so that you can run these x64 apps on your Windows 10 ARM PC with a lot of ease. Your existing x32 apps, like Chrome, will switch over to 64-bit upon getting installed the required software.
For these all in favor of testing out x64 emulation on your ARM-based PC, go forward and install the most recent Windows 10 Insider build. We presently have no data on when Microsoft plans to bring this to the stable channel.
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