Windows machines running on Arm are here! Actually, they’ve been here for years. But don’t call it a comeback, because those laptops based on Qualcomm Snapdragon processors—which Microsoft pushed so, so hard last year—aren’t selling so great. But according to Microsoft, those worries about app compatibility are pretty much over.

That’s the gist of a new Windows Developer Blog post , which says that “native Arm versions available for apps representing 90% of total user minutes.” Which seems great! But that’s a highly selective statement, which led me to follow into a disclosure page linked on the post. You can probably work out on your own that testing “user minutes” isn’t the same as saying that almost all individual apps are running Arm-native versions, instead of using emulation for

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