Security News > 2020 > December > Microsoft adds 64-bit application support to Windows 10 on ARM
Microsoft has announced the long-awaited ability to run emulated 64-bit applications in Windows on ARM. This new feature will allow applications to use more memory and thus gain better performance than their 32-bit counterparts.
When Windows 10 for ARM was released in 2017, Microsoft created an emulation layer that allowed users to run 32-bit applications.
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Windows Insiders can now test an x64 emulation layer on Windows on Arm to run 64-bit applications.
Microsoft plans on integrating the driver, and redistributable in future Windows 10 Insider builds so that users do not need to install them manually.
Microsoft has still not stated when this feature is estimated to go live, and we should expect to see this tested over the next few Windows 10 releases.
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