Microsoft makes Windows-on-Arm in VMs on Macs official – with Parallels for starters
Microsoft has started to officially support Windows 11 on Arm running as a virtual machine on Macs powered by Apple's own M1 and M2 CPUs.
Windows-on-Arm has been available for download for years, and it's been possible to run it as a VM on Macs: desktop hypervisor vendor Parallels hasBut Microsoft never authorized those VMs, so they were unsupported, and users could not therefore license Windows 11 for such uses. Naughty, naughty users.
The article also points out that Arm-flavored Windows is inferior in many regards – it might even be called underArm-flavored – as it can't be relied on by developers who need DirectX 12 or OpenGL3.3 or greater, or want to use the Linux and/or Android subsystems for Windows.
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