Principal Software engineer at Microsoft, making Arm things work
England, United Kingdom
Joined February 2009
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Great to see the launch of GitHub runners for Windows on Arm. It's been a long journey, but great to have this really important feature available now.
Give it a spin - add runs-on: windows-11-arm, update the build to target Arm and go!
blogs.windows.com/windowsdev…
Great to see the unwrapping of ASIO class driver work for Windows, and specifically Arm64, being led by @Pete_Brown. This is huge for audio creators to get Copilot+ PCs into studios. Pete posted a comprehensive write up here:
devblogs.microsoft.com/windo…
Want to know if your favourite apps work on Windows on Arm? The worksonwoa.com has been extended to include apps as well as games.
Check it out and make sure your app is listed.
Since 6th Sept the Blender nightly builds for Windows on Arm include compiler changes that deliver >40% CPU perf improvements on Copilot+ PCs. Make sure you have the latest 4.3 build for Arm from here: builder.blender.org/download…
Windows App SDK 1.6 - Ahead of time compile is back and it does a pretty neat job, check out the details here: blogs.windows.com/windowsdev…
Libre Office (Open Office) - official builds available for Windows Arm64 here: libreoffice.org/download/dow…
This Blender porting writeup by Anthony provides interesting details on what it takes to bring a big, open source project to Windows on Arm. Some interesting details, well worth a read!
linaro.org/blog/blender-now-…
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Happy launch day!
Shop Copilot+ PCs: A New Era of Windows AI PCs and microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/…
What are CoPilot+ PCs? Here is the announcement: aka.ms/copilotpcs
Slack now available for Windows on Arm64:
slack.com/intl/en-gb/downloa…
Three great partners delivering amazing apps running Arm native. Thanks for the fantastic collaboration!
Affinity coming to Arm this week:
youtu.be/3bSLJGF6_cE
Reincubates updated Camo product:
youtube.com/watch?v=q3xeEIQv…
And Algoriddim
youtube.com/watch?v=51ybMOPv…
Wow, so much great stuff announced today ahead of the main Microsoft Build event:
blogs.microsoft.com/blog/202…
Arm excitement begins ahead of Build.
Here is my blog post for the Arm team:
newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-mi…
Pretty good summary of Windows on Arm state of play highlighting changes in SW landscape for Arm, which is making more and more sense as a developer device - light, long battery, lots of power... code anywhere, for as long as you want! :)
newsroom.arm.com/windows-on-…
Wait!? What? ... Chrome now available Arm64 native on Windows google.com/chrome/canary/
Really nice to see some cool products picking up Arm native support via EC! Big thanks to @Pete_Brown for the original article on Arm64EC.
Adding ARM64X support for our chipsynth line was a pretty fun side project to take the stress off the crunch for a week. The ARM64EC/x64 compatibility layer is pretty wild: allowing existing x64 hosts to load ARM64 optimized binaries. Details: devblogs.microsoft.com/windo… @Pete_Brown
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This is big and long needed news...
Github just announced they will have Arm native runners available in GitHub Actions. Sign-up below to get on the waitlist:
resources.github.com/devops/…
Windows Dev kits back in stock today (US only)
microsoft.com/en-us/d/window…