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Microsoft brings native Python support to Windows on Arm PCs

Python 3.15 brings native Arm64 support to Windows on Arm, with 94% package compatibility and new GitHub Actions runners.

Python's Arm support advances: Dependencies to check before upgrading PCs

Can you run your usual data aggregation and automation tasks on a new PC? For those who use Python for work or IT staff ...

"Installation successful"—but it doesn't work: 10 places where things go wrong silently between "installing" and "running" a package

Both pip install and pnpm add finished with success on the last line. The names are in the lock file, too. Yet, when I run it ...
How-To Geek

Windows 11 promises to clean up bloat, but disabling its own features is the only thing that works

These pre-installed apps run background processes, scheduled tasks, and startup entries that eat up your RAM and CPU. All of ...

Windows 11 PCs just got better Bluetooth and a remappable Copilot key

The October Windows 11 update promises Bluetooth audio fixes, restores file previews, and lets you remap the Copilot key.
XDA Developers

I rebuilt my Windows PC from one YAML file, and I'm never clicking through installers again

The export wasn’t the final file that could rebuild my PC. The export is JSON, while the configure command needs a YAML file, ...
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Microsoft built a version of Windows 11 without the bloat, but there's a big catch

Project Zenith is proof that Microsoft knows how to make a less annoying version of Windows 11. So, why is it making it ...

94% of top PyPI packages feature native Windows on Arm support

Anaconda now hosts 2,500 Arm packages, while NumPy and SciPy publish native wheels to aid data scientists migrating off ...
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Python 3.15 Makes UTF-8 the Default, Easing Windows Text Issues — but Legacy Code Needs a Check

Python 3.15's UTF-8 default reduces environment-dependent behavior when no encoding is specified. We look at what it means ...

Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...
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How Can a Company Move to Arm Without Losses? Gleb Khmyznikov on Where to Start the Switch

A Microsoft engineer who led the effort to bring Python and machine learning libraries to Windows on Arm explains why some ...

Python 3.15 released: Lazy imports, UTF-8 and new data types

Python 3.15 is expected to speed up some programs and simplifies handling immutable data. UTF-8 as standard requires testing.