windows on arm

Qualcomm says its new Snapdragon X2 Plus family overturns assumptions about Arm performance on Windows laptops, claiming dramatic wins over current Intel and AMD mobile chips in CPU, GPU, and AI workloads — but the numbers come with important caveats that should shape how enthusiasts and OEMs...

Lenovo’s leaked lineup of Snapdragon X2-powered Copilot+ laptops for CES 2026 redraws the map for Windows on Arm devices: a premium Yoga Slim 7x built around Qualcomm’s top-bin X2 Elite silicon sits alongside three IdeaPad models that favor the newly revealed Snapdragon X2 Plus platform...

Paul Thurrott’s RunAsRadio appearance — recorded as episode #1016 — framed 2025 as a decisive, messy year for Windows: leadership changes, a renewed engineering re-unification, an aggressive hardware-first AI strategy, and renewed enthusiasm for Windows on Arm that together set the stage for a...

Windows 11’s infrastructure is quietly reshaping itself under the hood, and the result this month is a rare kind of performance story: significant, measurable gains for core hardware subsystems driven largely by architectural changes and a handful of coordinated vendor updates. Background...

The tech industry’s holiday glow is fading into a quiet, exhausted winter: the big consumer names—Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon—still ship remarkable products, but the spark of fandom that once turned early adopters into evangelists has dimmed. What remains is a mixture of fatigue...

Radxa’s Dragon Q6A has taken a notable step toward making Arm single‑board computers (SBCs) a practical option for Windows users: Radxa released an official Windows 11 preview image for the Dragon Q6A, and the early preview already supports core I/O and accelerated multimedia when the vendor...

When Qualcomm and Microsoft set out to make Windows 11 on Arm actually matter for mainstream users, most observers expected incremental gains: better battery life, a few niche apps working, and some polished PR. Instead, a coordinated engineering push—centered on the Prism x64-to-Arm emulator...

Microsoft’s recent weekly roundup makes clear that the tail end of 2025 is busy: Windows 11 is getting targeted gaming improvements, the Prism emulator on Windows on Arm has been broadened to support modern x86 instruction sets, vendors are issuing new drivers validated for the 25H2 enablement...

Microsoft’s latest weekly roundup signals a focused push to shore up gaming on Windows 11 while also tightening driver support for the newly enabled 25H2 release — a mix of meaningful wins and fresh cautionary signs for PC enthusiasts and IT teams alike. The headline items are an upgrade to the...

If you want a tablet that can double as a laptop, the choice often narrows to two premium paths: Microsoft’s Surface Pro family running full Windows 11, or Apple’s iPad Pro running iPadOS on Apple Silicon. The Microsoft Surface Pro 12-inch positions itself as a portable Windows PC with Copilot+...

Windows 11’s gaming story in 2025 stopped being incremental and started feeling strategic: Microsoft and partners focused less on single‑title gimmicks and more on solving long‑standing platform problems — shader stutter, inconsistent handheld performance, and sparse Arm support — by changing...

Lenovo’s IdeaCentre Mini X arrives as one of the most consequential Windows-on-Arm mini PCs yet: compact, quietly powerful for everyday productivity, and priced aggressively enough to force a rethink of compact Windows desktops — especially for organizations and users who want a near-silent...

Microsoft's latest push to broaden and accelerate the Windows gaming story on Arm represents a clear inflection point: the company is not merely tinkering at the edges, but actively changing the platform stack — from emulator capabilities and anti-cheat to graphics delivery and the Xbox app — to...

Microsoft appears to be quietly testing the edges of a big, nostalgia‑driven idea: making legacy Xbox catalog titles — notably original Xbox and Xbox 360 games — playable on Windows PCs and Windows handhelds. The claim rests on a mix of insider chatter, back‑end storefront oddities that showed...

Microsoft’s Prism emulator update is the most substantial boost to Windows on Arm compatibility in years, and it finally lets a far wider set of x86 (x64) applications and many games run on Windows 11 devices powered by Arm processors without developer ports or native builds. Background /...

Microsoft’s 25H2 update for Windows 11 lands as a pragmatic, security‑first and AI‑infused refinement rather than a dramatic visual overhaul, but its real significance lies in how Microsoft rewired the platform: faster installs via an enablement package, deeper Copilot integration across core...

Microsoft’s year-end wrap for PC gaming is both a reassurance and a roadmap: after a year that produced meaningful technical progress — from the Xbox Full Screen Experience on handhelds to the arrival of DirectX Raytracing 1.2 — the company has publicly committed to one central goal for 2026...

Microsoft’s first honest concession about Windows 11’s gaming shortcomings is also its clearest roadmap yet: 2026 will be the year Microsoft stops treating gaming performance as an afterthought and starts treating it as a platform priority. Background Microsoft has long claimed Windows is the...

Microsoft’s work with the ROG Xbox Ally has done more than spawn a pair of attention-grabbing Windows handhelds — according to the company, the collaboration has accelerated a string of operating‑system, driver and DirectX improvements that make gaming on Windows faster, more portable and more...

Windows 11’s gaming story in 2025 reads less like an incremental update and more like a deliberate course correction: handhelds that behave like consoles, meaningful progress for Windows on Arm, and DirectX features that make ray tracing and AI-driven rendering practical beyond demos. These...