Spotify arrives as a native application on Windows PCs under ARM

Good news for users of computers equipped with an ARM chip running Windows: the latest beta of the Spotify application (downloadable here) includes optimizations for ARM64 which allow it to be used natively, and thus to take advantage of a more responsive application that consumes less system resources. However, there are still a few issues to be resolved, such as the management of video podcasts, which it is best to continue to watch via an internet browser for the moment. If it is still possible to emulate the operation of the traditional Spotify application, the streaming platform announces a fairly substantial performance gain in favor of the native application.

Firefox, Instagram, Twitter, Zoom, Netflix, VLC or even Photoshop are among the software whose publishers have made the effort to offer a native port on the ARM version of Windows. Despite the presence of these big names in the list of native (and therefore optimized) applications, it should be recognized: the Windows ARM application catalog remains very sparse. Of course, Microsoft is trying to catch up by encouraging developers to offer Windows ARM versions of their software, but with little success. The operating system publisher therefore also relies on the emulation – not always ideal – of x86 and x64 software, while developing the compatibility of Windows 11 with Android applications.

Undoubtedly, the announcement of the arrival of a service as popular as Spotify in a native version on Windows ARM will be seen as a very good signal by Microsoft, which hopes that other publishers will follow suit. music streaming swedish. Microsoft, which intends to continue to promote Windows on the ARM platform in the future, as evidenced by the recent revelations concerning its Volterra mini PC project.