What runs and what doesn’t on Windows 11 with ARM chips

In May 2024, Microsoft manager Brett Ostrum unveiled a notebook and a tablet from the company's own Surface brand. In addition to the AI assistant, they also rely on chips with ARM technology. — Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa

BERLIN: Windows 11 computers that use ARM chips have now arrived. One consequence is that some software that ran successfully on Intel or AMD chips may no longer work.

An emulator built into Windows 11 should keep the number of such programs down but Microsoft has said that this won’t work in every case.