Matisyahu's Blog

Just having a read through the Webkit website to see what the latest Safari Technology Preview has in store (link) and what peaked my interest was this:

The support is present on M3 as well as A17 SoC – I’m holding off for the M4 or M5 because I’m interesting in seeing Apple move to ARMv9 which includes SVE2 and hopefully AV1 decoding and encoding. I’m hoping that maybe once the software based AV1 decoder becomes more efficient that it becomes an option for those Macs that don’t have the necessary hardware capability for hardware accelerated decoding.

It’s interesting because work at the moment we have moved from having Chromebook and Google services to now I have a Dell laptop running Windows 10 (looking an upgrading to Windows 11 soon) and Microsoft Office 365. Maybe it is just me but Windows has come a really long way since I last used it as my main driver so it’ll be interesting to see what Windows 11 is like when compared to Windows 10. It appears that Microsoft have been putting a lot of effort into making Windows ‘not suck’.

Part of that has been the work that Microsoft have been doing with the Windows App SDK (link) – gradually migrating their software over in a piecemeal piece by piece process, for example, Microsoft is moving their Photo app to the Windows SDK platform (link). I could see in the long term the apps bundled with Windows eventually becoming 100% sitting on top of the Windows App SDK with what is traditionally known as Win32 will become a legacy framework that’ll hang around for backwards compatibility.