Today I’ll show you how to test the upcoming Microsoft Windows 11 on an M1 Mac using a Parallels Desktop virtual machine.Īre Windows Virtual Machines Living on Borrowed Time?įor Mac users who need to run Microsoft Windows on their computers for compatibility reasons, virtual machines are currently the only game in town.
In April, a short article showed how to install both an ARM version of Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux on an M1 Mac.
But, we don't have enough information to really make a determition about whether that's happening or not, IMHO.I’ve been writing a lot about Parallels Desktop, a powerful app for running virtual machines that now runs on Apple Silicon Macs. That starts to look like Microsoft forcing you to buy a preferred partner vendor's (Intel's) hardware to run their software product, when it would otherwise work on a non-preferred vendor's hardware (Apple). The first position starts to look more dubious if they're specifically going out of their way to break Windows' ability to function on the M(x) chips. The second is, IMHO, perfectly reasonable, even if I think it's a bad move long term for Microsoft to shut themselves out of an entire hardware platform, and certainly not a good look for them. Or: Are they just saying that it's unsupported, they're not going to promise it works, and Microsoft Tech Support won't help you if you do it? So the question is: Does the Windows 10/11 license explicitly forbid certain types of virtualization, and if yes, is that prohibition defined in a way that clearly encapsulates running Windows 10/11 (ARM version) on a Mac M(x) chip? Microsoft, a private entity, can't declare anything illegal. They can take a position that a practice is in violation of their license agreement for Windows 10/11, but until a court rules on the matter, one can't make a statement on whether the practice is actually illegal.
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