Will Your Business Applications Run on the Latest Copilot+ Computers? – Computerworld

To ease the transition, many existing Windows apps will run on an Arm-based computer. And by “just run,” I mean that—you can double-click their installers and run them normally. Unless you dig into the process in Task Manager, you might not even know you’re running an x86 app.

But this support doesn’t go far. Some types of applications won’t work on the Prism translation layer and won’t be functional. Some hardware devices may also not work with these computers. In addition, some demanding professional applications may be slowed down so much by this translation layer that they become unusable.

Chris Hoffman, IDG

Rule #2 Qualcomm Snapdragon Arm Copilot+: Some apps will have problems

There are a few types of apps that are guaranteed not to work properly on Prism. They will work if developers port them to Arm – but there’s no guarantee that developers will care, especially for existing business apps.