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A large part of the success of this new platform is how fast devs can adapt / fix their apps to work natively. Apple, for instance, provided dev mules for OSX ARM --- and their rollout of Apple Silicon was smoother than anyone could have hoped.

Windows ARM -- still borked in SOOO many ways -- and its 10+ years old now.

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> Windows ARM -- still borked in SOOO many ways -- and its 10+ years old now.

Internally, nearly 20 years. It was kept alive for a long time by a single individual as a side project. When I first got out of college I actually helped update tests that were being used for it (I maintained the ARM compiler test harness, and it was being used for some Windows on ARM stuff as well).

Microsoft has never went fully in on arm, whereas Apple was willing to burn bridges and start brand new.

To be fair to Microsoft Apple did have the advantage of controlling the stack from top to bottom.

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