One difference with this wave of Arm PCs? All the big PC makers are actually on board
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/one-difference-with-this-wave-of-arm-pcs-all-the-big-pc-makers-are-actually-on-board/
Here at Ars, we’ve been around long enough to chronicle every single time that Microsoft has tried to get Windows running on Arm-based processors, instead of the Intel and AMD-made x86 chips that have been synonymous with Windows for more than three decades. The most significant attempts happened in 2012 with Windows RT, which looked like Windows 8 but couldn’t run any x86 Windows apps; and in 2017 when Windows 10 Arm PCs arrived with rudimentary x86 emulation.