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I won’t presume to think for Microsoft, but it seems like an attractive proposition for a company that’s increasingly interested in its applications running everywhere on any hardware, whether locally or in the cloud. According to a Windows Central article, Microsoft Office support for M1 chips is “in the works” — or already there through emulation:

Even if Microsoft were to forge partnerships that resulted in ARM-based PC processors, the “decentralized” command and control could result in a lot of confusion. As difficult as it is to move vertically integrated hardware and software to new silicon, the task is compounded when you’re trying to herd PC OEMs, processor makers, and software (Windows and applications).

Second, even if Macs don’t generate as much revenue as iPhones do, they are poised to easily expand Apple’s share of the laptop and desktop market — taken from Intel’s hide.

As I wrote today on my new blog, The Mobilist, GM has fired a surprising salvo in the Battery War — a vow that it will beat Tesla, VW, and everyone else to the superbattery. Yesterday, GM executives claimed they would win one of the biggest battles of all — to master and commercialize the metallic lithium-based battery. GM says it will have such a battery in its EVs by the middle of the decade. When I asked battery experts about that, one emailed back to say, “that’s bullshit.” A second, on WhatsApp, said, “that’s just crazy.”

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One can see an uneasy, confused coexistence of x86 and various ARM-based products. I have no idea how Microsoft could bring order to a new ARM platform, certainly not with the success that let them reign for decades with x86 devices.

Over the years, Microsoft’s adoption of ARM has been tentative.Windows RT, a version of Windows 8 running on 32-bit ARM hardware introduced in 2011, didn’t “take”. In 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with Qualcomm to run 32-bit Windows software on ARM architecture hardware. In 2019, Microsoft shipped the Surface Pro X, followed by a 2020 version that promised to finally run native 64-bit Windows software.

“…for Windows running natively on the machine, “that’s really up to Microsoft,” he said. “We have the core technologies for them to do that, to run their ARM version of Windows, which in turn of course supports x86 user mode applications. But that’s a decision Microsoft has to make, to bring to license that technology for users to run on these Macs. But the Macs are certainly very capable of it.”

“GM has made the much-overlooked claim that by mid-decade, it expects to commercialize the most exotic of the stretch futuristic batteries currently on electric vehicle drawing boards.”

The Redmond company already has Windows 10 running on ARM silicon developed by Qualcomm. Despite an update this year, the combination hasn’t taken the world by storm, so why not go “whole Mac” and offer Windows 10 on M1? Microsoft’s key applications running on Apple hardware would deliver an experience that’s much more attractive than on an x86 laptop. As Sr VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi noted, it’s Microsoft’s decision:

Second, even if Macs don’t generate as much revenue as iPhones do, they are poised to easily expand Apple’s share of the laptop and desktop market — taken from Intel’s hide.

The ARM processor inside Microsoft’s Surface Pro X might not be as fast as the M1, but there’s a strong incentive for Qualcomm or AMD to partner with Microsoft and come up with an attractive ARM-based chip and offer it to today’s PC OEMs. With Windows 10 on ARM this would create a new generation of lighter, longer-running laptops that, in theory, would be able to compete with Apple Silicon Macs.

In this scenario, Microsoft becomes the entity that controls Intel’s future in the PC market. While the M1 Macs might not make a dent in Intel’s PC business, Windows 10 running on competitive, inexpensive ARM processors would be an enormous blow…if Microsoft can pull it off.

With Microsoft apps running natively on M1 Macs, x86 PC makers such as HP and Dell will be competing with machines that are faster and have better battery life. Their only rebuttal could be Windows 10 running on ARM silicon.