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I wonder if the next version of the raspberry pi would serve as a good system to run Windows on Arm on. If so, I could see opportunity for it to capture a large part of the low-end Windows market.

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You can already do this (unofficially) on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Windows 10 [0]:

It has also now been done (unofficially) on Windows 11 and it works. [1] Obviously not for the faint of heart and is completely 'unsupported'.

[0] https://www.worproject.ml/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLb0d7zTsRY

Indeed so, but I'm talking about a fair bit of speed improvement with better io (eg. usb type c) and offical support of Windows

Well you could wait for them to eventually support it. (Could take years)

Or you could do it yourself, today.

If this happens, the RPi-way of booting could end up enshrined as the way to boot ARM devices in the same way the PC BIOS did until EFI came along. But maybe not, Microsoft will probably support EFI on ARM all the way. They do, don't they?

AFAIK Windows ARM devices are currently all EFI based.

That's backwards because the raspberry pi SoC is backwards. The reason there is a "RPi-way of booting" is that the RPi is not an "ARM computer", it is a video core "computer" (technically the video core is just a graphics chip) running a proprietary OS called threadX that just happens to have ARM cores.

Yea. First Windows 8 RT ARM devices used UEFI + Secure Boot. I don't see why they would change the model.

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