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Hello Michael,</div>
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I trust you're doing well.</div>
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I am Sajal Sarkar from App Assure team who will assist you on this request.</div>
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Thank you for your detailed note and for sharing how KDE prefers to collaborate. I really appreciate the clarity it helps us tailor our support in a way that works best for your contributors.</div>
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I’m sharing below a summary along with a few public resources and status on the Qt that may help KDE developers as they explore Windows on Arm.</div>
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<b>Public resources that may be useful to KDE:</b></div>
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Windows on Arm developer overview: <span style="color: rgb(70, 79, 235);"><a style="color: rgb(70, 79, 235); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAdd87f566-d03e-2e05-ff90-92b9149983db" href="https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/arm/">https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/arm/</a></span></p>
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ARM64EC overview: <span style="color: rgb(70, 79, 235);"><a style="color: rgb(70, 79, 235); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAb9a6e7a8-1cb8-6e49-328c-125b8440da26" href="https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/arm/arm64ec">https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/arm/arm64ec</a></span></p>
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ARM64EC build guidance: <span style="color: rgb(70, 79, 235);"><a style="color: rgb(70, 79, 235); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA42182682-e8b8-7b13-6647-e89e89a3d319" href="https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/arm/arm64ec-build">https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/arm/arm64ec-build</a></span></p>
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We're checking internally with the QT team to check the status for the supports on ARM64ec.</div>
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<b>How App Assure can support KDE moving forward:</b><br>
• We can review specific KDE applications for Windows on Arm compatibility Okular, Filelight, KStars, or others if individual maintainers or mailing lists want assistance.<br>
• If developers hit Arm‑specific issues in their build or runtime environment, we’re happy to help investigate.<br>
• Once Qt’s ARM64EC support becomes available, we can also help validate scenarios that rely on mixed‑mode binaries.</div>
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I’m also open to a short call if it’s easier for you or the contributors happy to join between 1:30 PM IST to 10:30 PM IST.</div>
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Please feel free let me know if you have any queries.</div>
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<b>From:</b> Michael Pyne <mpyne@kde.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 14, 2025 11:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Marisa Irimie (Lugera and Makler) <a-mirimie@microsoft.com>; kde-devel@kde.org <kde-devel@kde.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Fasttrack – App Assure <ftdaa@microsoft.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: Fw: Microsoft App Assure | KDE e.V. compatibility with Windows on Arm | CRM:01390020047</div>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">Hi Marisa,</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">Thank you for your patience, some of the delay was so that some of us could discuss the request. Emails like this to the KDE e.V. are infrequent. And even
this response is not speaking for the e.V., I just volunteered to make sure your email and followup received a reply.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">While the KDE e.V. provides support to the developers in the KDE community that create some of the apps published on the Microsoft Store, including Okular,
Filelight, and KStars, it does not exert the level of control of development where support such as break-fix or escalation would make sense. KDE developers already support our users on a multitude of platforms, including ARM, so we have some familiarity with
some of the general porting issues already. This desire to reach our users where they are, no matter the platform or OS, is one of the reasons many of our apps are available in the Microsoft Store for Windows users.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">As we are a worldwide community who volunteer our time and effort into building this collection of software, the most useful types of engineering advice
are typically those in forms that can be consumed at an individual developer's convenience, such as technical articles/blogs, reference documentation, sample code (appropriately licensed for open source usage), and even videos. This is especially true of advice
that goes beyond generic best practices, such as if there are any Windows for Arm-specific differences with APIs, programming language object/type differences, and so on.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">If this is the kind of thing App Assure provides, static code analysis to look for compatibility issues might also be helpful, but would be most helpful
when provided to the specific application developers or mailing list rather than the KDE e.V. Members of this list can help point you or others to specific mailing lists or project boards if you have suggestions for specific apps we publish on the Microsoft
Store.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">We are appreciative of offers to help, I just want to emphasize our model is closer to a good number of part-time developers than to a model where a couple
of tech exchange meetings would take care of a majority of active developers.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">As you mentioned in your first email being unsure of our compatibility with Windows for ARM, I also wanted to provide links to the relevant information:</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">* Documentation to our developers on how to package KDE apps for Microsoft Store is at
<a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://develop.kde.org/docs/packaging/windows/microsoftstore/packaging/" class="x_x_x_x_moz-txt-link-freetext x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA22d5f50a-d5b0-6cf9-59de-8edcc3d58e40" href="https://develop.kde.org/docs/packaging/windows/microsoftstore/packaging/">
https://develop.kde.org/docs/packaging/windows/microsoftstore/packaging/</a> which refers to artifacts from our automated CI/CD</span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">* That CI/CD is primarily driven out of "KDE Craft" (<a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://invent.kde.org/packaging/craft-blueprints-kde/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml" class="x_x_x_x_moz-txt-link-freetext x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAb0dd3690-e1a8-30d4-82d1-1379b0ab0142" href="https://invent.kde.org/packaging/craft-blueprints-kde/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml">https://invent.kde.org/packaging/craft-blueprints-kde/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml</a>).
Taking a look at that file, it appears we only package Windows apps for x86.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">But this wouldn't be an official support policy as much as the limit of our "best effort" towards supporting Windows where its users are. Build system resources
permitting, I think we'd package for Windows ARM as well if the setup is not too difficult (and remains not too difficult, maintenance burden for a feature used by very few features is problematic). That would be a topic for our KDE Sysadmins (who are also
volunteers from around the world).</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">If it's easier to digest in a discussion I'm happy to serve as a POC for a short call (and at least for the upcoming week can generally be available at or
after 4pm U.S. Eastern Time). If you just needed to ensure that someone reached out to KDE, you can consider that task accomplished, with our collective thanks.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">Also, most of our software is built upon the Qt toolkit, so if no one has reached out to them, I would recommend doing so. They do have a for-profit company
you can engage with (see <a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://www.qt.io/" class="x_x_x_x_moz-txt-link-freetext x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAfb3d984d-4c19-d3e8-1d66-048cbf973f5b" href="https://www.qt.io/">
https://www.qt.io/</a>), and any significant Qt issues with Windows for Arm will also be issues for KDE-based software unless they can be worked around. They do at least support ARM with their latest release (see
<a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/windows.html" class="x_x_x_x_moz-txt-link-freetext x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA720e496d-3ed4-7d16-ff75-e06fc2e7f6f4" href="https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/windows.html">
https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/windows.html</a> though it does not support the Windows 11-specific ARM64EC). </span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">Finally, even if we don't setup a call, if we do run into Arm-specific issues, would it be best to reach out to you/your team to get them resolved?</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";">Thank you again for your proactive engagement.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Noto Sans";"> - Michael Pyne</span></p>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">On 11/12/25 6:05 AM, Marisa Irimie (Lugera and Makler) wrote:</div>
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I wanted to follow up on my previous email regarding Windows on Arm compatibility for KDE e.V. We’d like to ensure your applications run smoothly on the latest Microsoft platforms, including Copilot+ PCs.</div>
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As mentioned, App Assure provides no-cost engineering support such as:</div>
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Would you be available for a 30-minute onboarding call to discuss the next steps? Please share a time that works best for you.</div>
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Looking forward to your response.</div>
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<b>From:</b> Marisa Irimie (Lugera and Makler) <a class="x_x_x_x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAb42a74ed-4a53-c287-7f95-a6329b39253f" href="mailto:a-mirimie@microsoft.com">
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 4, 2025 12:53 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Microsoft App Assure | KDE e.V. compatibility with Windows on Arm | CRM:01390020047</div>
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Hello all,</div>
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My name is Marisa Irimie, and I’m an App Assure Manager with Microsoft’s FastTrack Center. My team<b> helps Microsoft customers and ISVs</b> ensure application
<b>compatibility </b>with the latest Microsoft platforms, including <b>Windows on Arm and Copilot+ PCs.</b></div>
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We’d like to collaborate with you to prepare <b>KDE.e.V for Windows on Arm.</b> I couldn’t find any compatibility details on the website, so I wanted to reach out directly.</div>
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App Assure offers no-cost engineering support, including:</div>
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I’d be happy to schedule a 30-minute onboarding call next week to get started. Please let me know your availability.</div>
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Best regards,</div>
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