Visual Studio Code is only recently supported on Arm, Power Toys is still blocked by a number of dependencies) and there are currently no plans for a native Arm version of Visual Studio. Office and Edge run natively, as does the Windows 10 (Bedrock) version of Minecraft, but not the original Java version (it needs a much later version of OpenGL). There's a preview version that supports other OpenCL and OpenGL apps, but it's only for OpenCL 1.2 and earlier and OpenGL 3.3 and earlier.īut while developers have been quick to make their apps native for Apple's M1 Arm devices, progress has been slower on Windows - even for Microsoft's own apps. The OpenCL and OpenGL Compatibility Pack was initially developed to help Adobe bring native Photoshop - which relies heavily on GPU acceleration - to Windows 10 on Arm. IIS isn't available yet and the lack of an official native build of Go is holding up Git for Windows - although there is already an unofficial initial ARM64 build of Go-lang for Windows on Arm, specifically to enable the Wireguard VPN app. There are native builds for Python and Rust. Microsoft's acquisition of jClarity meant it took on the work of porting OpenJDK to Arm for Windows 10. NET 6 won't be released until November 2021, and discussions about how long it will take to get WPF ARM64 support. That means getting the language and framework support that developers need, and again that's been a gradual process.Ĭhromium, the Chromium Embedded Framework, and Electron have been available for Windows on Arm since late 2019, with native Chromium builds arriving in early 2020.NET 5 brought ARM64 support, but support for WPF and WinForms is very recent, arriving in the first preview of. Microsoft may have been hoping that many more developers would recompile applications as native Arm versions, because the reason they were 64-bit in the first place was often for performance reasons, so running them in emulation wouldn't be ideal. It's still in insider builds, but test results are encouraging. Many installers, even for 32-bit software, are also 64-bit.Ħ4-bit emulation is coming to Windows on Arm to help with that. SEE: Microsoft 365: A cheat sheet (free PDF) (TechRepublic)ĬorelDRAW still has a 32-bit version, but the new AI-powered features only work in the 64-bit version. There are 32-bit versions of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver available, but these are from an older release (Creative Cloud 2018) and lack newer features.

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