Microsoft's recent secret project has come to light. According to job postings cited by IT Home, Microsoft is developing a strategic project codenamed "Project Strong ARMed." This project falls under the Experience and Devices Division, with the core goal of using generative AI technology to solve the long-standing challenge of architectural migration within the Windows ecosystem.

For a long time, a large number of Windows applications and services have been built on x64 architecture, making them unable to run smoothly on ARM architecture devices. Traditional code porting work is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive but also prone to errors. The emergence of "Project Strong ARMed" aims to build an automated system based on AI agents. This system can deeply analyze program logic and automatically optimize and migrate x64 architecture codebases to the Windows on Arm (WoA) platform, and even support cross-platform migration to Linux environments.

Notably, the project is currently closely focused on Microsoft's self-developed Cobalt 100 chip. Since Cobalt 100 is mainly used in Microsoft's own ARM servers, industry analysts believe that this AI-driven porting technology may initially focus more on optimizing cloud services and internal tools.

Although it is currently unclear when this technology will be fully opened to consumer developers, Microsoft's move undoubtedly injects a strong boost into the ARM ecosystem. By turning "manual rewriting" into "AI automatic translation," Microsoft is trying to break down the barriers between hardware architectures, making the flow of software ecosystems more convenient than ever before.

Key Points:

  • 🤖 AI Automatic Porting: Microsoft uses generative AI to create intelligent agents, aiming to achieve automated migration of x64 code to ARM64 architecture, greatly reducing development costs.

  • 🌩️ Focusing on Cloud Performance: The project is currently highly integrated with Microsoft's self-developed Cobalt 100 server chip, indicating that cloud workload will lead the architectural transformation.

  • 🧱 Breaking Down Architectural Barriers: This technology supports not only internal migration within Windows but also the capability to migrate to Linux, aiming to completely resolve the compatibility gap between different architectures.