14 DAY TRIAL // There’s not much you can do with a Windows phone these days, but as some users discovered in the last few months, these devices are great choices for a bunch of experiments.
And one of these experiments is Windows 10 on ARM, which can be installed on Windows phones like the Lumia 950 XL to get nearly the full feature package.
Even though Microsoft itself doesn’t support the project to bring Windows 10 on ARM to Windows phones, the company itself seems to be playing with it, especially as it allows trying out other implementations that could soon become available to more users.
One of them is an ARM64 version of Sysinternals, with creator and Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich recently revealing that work in this regard has already started.
Russinovich tweeted photos of two different Sysinternals tools, namely Process Monitor and Process Explorer, running on Windows ARM64 on a Windows phone, suggesting that all the other utilities in the pack could land on this platform is the demand exists.
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Without a doubt, this is great news for Windows ARM64, but on the other hand, Windows phone diehards shouldn’t get their hopes too high regarding the mobile platform.
Despite Microsoft showcasing these tools on a Windows phone, it doesn’t mean Microsoft has any plan to officially support Windows 10 ARM on Windows 10 Mobile devices. But for the future of its ARM push, Sysinternals makes a lot of sense, especially as Microsoft itself is putting a lot of effort into expanding this ecosystem.
Needless to say, there’s no ETA on Sysinternals landing in full on Windows 10 on ARM, but it’s pretty clear that more work in this regard is happening as we speak behind the closed doors at Microsoft. Further details could be shared as soon as this week at the Build developer conference.
