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Windows for Arm is surprisingly useful, and especially the x86 emulation works pretty well - for what I've been doing so far more seamless than the emulation on MacOS. The bigger problem is that the tooling for utilizing it in a corporate environment is still pretty much missing. You can't get release images from Microsoft, you either go via insider builds, or download release builds via 3rd party sites which index and extract Microsofts artifacts - both not really acceptable. Additionally the tools for customising installations and creating unattended images don't work for Arm yet.
On top of that there's not much hardware available, and it tends to be overpriced. I got a bunch of HP notebooks quite cheaply, and recently was looking into getting one Thinkpad as they have a 32GB option (HP has 8 and 16, and 16 is not enough for serious use nowadays). Seems the 32GB option is not available in EU at all, and while they're running a sale in the US which makes a 32GB available for a decent price there here in the EU I'd pay significantly more for a lower spec variant.