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I use this daily, but it does seem rather absurd that the only way to run Windows ARM on a high-end laptop is... to buy an Apple product, boot an Apple OS, fire up a third-party VM, and then run Windows inside that. (You can't even get a Surface Pro X with more than 16GB of memory.)

Meanwhile Microsoft ships apps that don't work on ARM, like Flight Simulator.

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Not sure what this game has to do with "Microsoft shipping apps".

Flight Simulator is a Microsoft app. It doesn't work on Windows Arm. If Microsoft is serious about Arm as a platform, the least they can do is make sure one of their most iconic game titles works on Windows Arm.

It does not work on Windows ARM because it is a game that was develop for a regular Windows and consoles. It is not the "app".

MSFS is made by Asobo, who aren't actually a Microsoft-owned studio. The name is just tradition at this point.

Surface Pro has a 32 gb model.

Isn't it x86? If you want a fully spec'd out Arm laptop, you're stuck with Apple.

Yes. And the new ARM surface has a 32 GB option as well.

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