It seems like support is finally actually getting fully there for Windows on ARM. Native apps you have Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, Photoshop and Lightroom, the Office suite, LibreOffice, Dropbox, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, .NET, VLC, Spotify, 7zip, Zoom... so many names, many of which are very recent to the list.
Of course there is still software missing native support (WhatsApp, Steam/most games, Slack, Adobe PDF reader) but the emulated support of both 32 bit and 64 bit x86 is there now so, so long as it doesn't have a kernel component (e.g. game anti-cheats), it'll actually at least run instead of "well, what version of x86 was that app?".
Combine that with the upcoming Snapdragon X Elite hardware and, supposedly, opening up to more than just Qualcomm and that it's an ARM Windows device won't necessarily have to be a bad thing anymore. The one last nut to crack is (ironically, for Windows) games. Until things like Fortnite are published with the ARM anti-cheat that'll be a big last snag which takes a while to clean itself up.
Of course there is still software missing native support (WhatsApp, Steam/most games, Slack, Adobe PDF reader) but the emulated support of both 32 bit and 64 bit x86 is there now so, so long as it doesn't have a kernel component (e.g. game anti-cheats), it'll actually at least run instead of "well, what version of x86 was that app?".
Combine that with the upcoming Snapdragon X Elite hardware and, supposedly, opening up to more than just Qualcomm and that it's an ARM Windows device won't necessarily have to be a bad thing anymore. The one last nut to crack is (ironically, for Windows) games. Until things like Fortnite are published with the ARM anti-cheat that'll be a big last snag which takes a while to clean itself up.