The Act! King of North has an excellent blog post warning users about changes by Microsoft that effects Act! users buying new laptops.
Microsoft has starting selling laptops with non-Intel/non-AMD chips.
The new Snapdragon (ARM processors) are not compatible with Act!.
As of now, Microsoft has not developed a version of SQL Server (the database engine for Act!) that natively supports ARM architecture. Developing and maintaining software for different architectures requires significant resources and testing to ensure stability and performance. Given the relatively smaller market share of ARM-based Windows devices compared to x86/x64 devices*, it might not be a priority for Microsoft at this time.
Here is the link: Ken of Keystroke has written.
