marktime

mknelson said:

marktime said:

Not really. Microsoft doesn't sell Windows for ARM. The only version that I am aware of is the Windows 11 Insider Preview ARM64. That's not a generally available version. There's a lot less to this announcement than is implied.

Parallels already had a simple install for Windows 11 Insider Preview ARM64 - super slick and super quick!

I think the main takeaway is Microsoft won't go out of their way to break ARM64 installs if they aren't on  computers with Qualcomm CPUs.

Agreed, the Parallels install and support for Windows 11 Insider Preview works very well. The integration between the two operating systems works extraordinarily well. What I object to is the first sentence of the article.

"You can get Windows onto an Apple Silicon MacBook Air." 

No you can't unless you are enrolled in the Microsoft's Windows Insider program.

Not really. Microsoft doesn't sell Windows for ARM. The only version that I am aware of is the Windows 11 Insider Preview ARM64. That's not a generally available version. There's a lot less to this announcement than is implied.

There is a lack of Windows on ARM for Qualcomm or any manufacturer. By that I mean that you cannot buy a released version of Windows 11 or 10 from Microsoft for any ARM device. Having said that, the Microsoft Windows 11 Insider Preview for ARM, which is pre-release software, runs just fine in a Parallels VM on an Apple Silicon Mac mini. Please note that there is no guarantee that Microsoft will actually release such pre-release software but obviously they could if they wanted to. (And it runs great!)

The Apple series seems to be more of a prequel as opposed to the original trilogy of Foundation, Foundation & Empire, Second Foundation.

That’s ridiculous. Unfinished code or known buggy code should never be checked into the daily build. That’s software development 101. Something is seriously out of control if developers have been checking stuff in prematurely.