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With a revamped Windows 10 lineup on Arm Surface Pro X now available, Microsoft has released a native Arm64 version of its popular Teams collaboration app.
Microsoft Teams was one of the new Arm64 native apps that Microsoft announced at the Surface Pro X launch this month, alongside Arm64 versions of the Chromium-based Edge browser and Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Applications are platform optimized, faster, and use less battery than emulated applications built for Intel chips.
The new Arm64 Teams app has been quietly announced by Microsoft’s senior product manager, Bill Weidenborner, in a LinkedIn post. Microsoft announced that the Arm64 version of Teams “is coming soon” last month at its Ignite 2020 conference.
As a native Arm64 app, the new version of Teams runs on Surface Pro X without any emulation like x86 apps do. And, via Windows Central, Reddit users report that it is “much more stable” than the x86 32-bit version of Teams.
Just before the launch of Surface Pro X, Microsoft announced that Windows on Arm will be able to run x64 apps with x64 emulation, coming to Windows Insiders in test builds in November. It is not clear when Microsoft will make x64 emulation generally available on Windows 10 on Arm.
Windows on Arm, of course, natively supports Arm apps, including Arm64 versions like the Teams app. But until now it only supported 32-bit Intel (x86) applications via emulation, while 64-bit applications only could not run on Windows on Arm devices due to lack of x64 emulation.
Microsoft is also working to ensure that existing apps work with Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 Apps on Arm 64 through the company’s App Assure program.
Additionally, it is working with teams from Acer, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and Surface to bring Windows 10 on Arm innovations and products to its partners’ customers.
Surface Pro X with the new SQ2 processor co-designed by Microsoft and Qualcomm is available for $ 1,499 for the Windows on Arm Home edition. It comes with 16GB or RAM and 256GB of storage. Surface Pro X has the same specs and Windows on Arm Pro costs $ 1,599.
Microsoft’s native Arm64 version of Teams should make your popular collaboration app run faster on machines like Surface Pro X.
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