Steven Sinofsky

Even more so, 80% of the typical PC buyers are just running browser-based compute and they just want the

They just want the keyboard, the form factor, and they like Macs because they don't wear down over time.

They have all their battery life for real.

They have the viruses and malware, a whole different game.

It's sort of this sealed case that we used to call it.

PCs that did move to ARM also thwarted all of the Windows APIs, which was the thing we chose not to do.

So now the new PCs running ARM are just the old PCs with the same viruses, the same problems with fans, the same lack of quality over time.

The classic Windows thing is, oh, you can just go edit the registry.

Well, if you have an ARM PC, you can still go edit the registry, and you can still fork your PC totally, and then you're screwed.

And so I just don't think that backward looking is the thing, which brings us to last night and all the X comments on the Spark laptops.

And everybody immediately jumping to two things.

First, NVIDIA announced that they're all going to run all existing Windows programs, which of course just follows from Microsoft's strategy of learning Win32 to ARM, which wasn't hard.

We'd already done it.

It was just opening up the dev tools and the ability to load the apps and things, which we disabled for ARM because we wanted to move the ecosystem forward to a new OS API.

But then the other part of this is just how you spin the whole thing in terms of backward compatibility.

And then they said, oh, it runs every single app of all time.

It's like, yeah, but you don't want to do that.

And more importantly, the second thing is you don't need it anymore.

But all of the enthusiasts are going nuts because they see it as Intel being replaced by NVIDIA, which is conceptually true, except not really.

It's just an alternative.