In a blog post last April, Roy said "there isn't exactly much business value relative to the engineering effort that is required" to support Intel-based operating systems on M1 Macs, adding that VMware is "laser focused on making Arm Linux VMs on Apple silicon a delight to use." VMware Fusion will also not be able to virtualize Intel-based Windows or Linux distributions, while support for virtualizing macOS is not ready yet. That’s an awful lot of money to leave on the table and you better believe their hardware OEM’s won’t be happy either since they would being put at a distinct competitive disadvantage being forced to use 圆4 chips in mobile devices that need to be able to compete with ARM devices on low power consumption. I doubt Microsoft will want to miss out on that market just to keep Intel happy and I doubt they are spending all of this R&D money on an 圆4 to ARM translation layer only to limit it to their Surface hardware line. ARM is the processor of the future since the vast majority of devices going forward will be mobile. They are not going to do it while it’s in beta but once it’s ready for prime time it doesn’t make a lot of financial sense for Microsoft to keep it for in-house hardware only unless Intel is so scared of ARM they are willing to pay Microsoft billions to shut it down. Agreed but I think that it’s inevitable that Microsoft will release OEM, retail and/or SAS licenses of Windows on ARM.
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