Ah, ok, that I really don't see the point.

PCs aren't vertically integrated from a single vendor, and thus it isn't as if Microsoft alone can drag a whole ecosystem into ARM, even if the emulation would work out great.

Windows NT was also multi-architecture, and eventually all variants died, because x86 was good enough, and when Itanium came to be, AMD got a workaround to keep x86 going forward.

Even gaming doesn't work that great on Windows ARM.

Microsoft isn't even putting in a fair effort.

They have the Surface line and own tons of game studios.

Where are the Gamepass games with Arm ?

Microsoft if they wanted to fund it right could get popular 3rd party software ported.

In retrospect it was hopelessly naive, but I even emailed Qualcomm asking if I could have a dev kit in exchange for porting one of my hobbyist games. They basically said thank you for asking but we don't have a program for this.

Now hypothetically let's say there was a Qualcomm Snapdragon Linux laptop. I could just port the code myself for most applications I actually need