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discussion   • You assume...      ...Microsoft cares what
happens in the ARM marketplace. With Intel bringing increasingly
more power efficient, no-compromise x86 compatible chips to the
tablet/phone space why should MS care?     • Because they are
invested in ARM.        That's not a very compelling argument,
if MS cared nothing for ARM they wouldn't have dumped so much
money and development costs into supporting it. Performance and
cost benefits of ARM aside, it has gotten MS around the
precarious expectation of backwards compatibility; which even on
Intel versions that support it legacy apps will be sketchy at
best. They will also have to keep costs as low as possible
regardless of which processors are best at any given time for a
while; so an "all eggs in one basket" a