I was the lead engineer on Virtual PC for Mac (I was “acquired” by Microsoft from Connectix along with the software), the core of VPC for Mac was the x86->PPC binary translation layer. Microsoft would be better off taking a boot camp approach if they thought Windows on ARM Mac worth doing. Oh - add a 3rd thing: the site which allows me to choose US English but reverts by itself to French after 1 second.Ĭlick to expand.Nope. The only 2 things I do not like are Parallels Desktop's insistence on "integrating" the WIndows environment with macOS (I do not want that at all - I just want to be able to run Windows apps when I have no other solution - a shared folder, a shared clipboard and drag and drop between Windows and macOS are all the integration I need ) and the ridiculous pricing /subscription of Parallels Desktop Pro (which is why I have the regular version).
That is very different from my experience with UTM, where you had to download a developer version, and needed some tricks to enable the Microsoft store.Īs described, Android and Linux subsystems for Windows do not work - I believe that the main reason for this is that M1/Pro/Max/Ultra (I do not know about M2s) do not support nested virtualization, which would be required to run a virtualized environment within a virtualized environment. Microsoft Store and Windows Update have been working OK. I have them activated, each with a Windows 11 Pro license purchased directly from Microsoft (those are the same regular Windows licenses as for 圆4) - so I feel very well from a legal standpoint. I have it on a M1 Pro MacBook Pro and a M1 Max Mac Studio, and they work very well. The blessing came today, but Parallels Desktop 18 has allowed, with the support of Microsoft and a very seamless process, to install a full "retail" version of Windows on Apple Silicon Mac for a few months. I'll probably run this Mac Pro for another 2 years or so (if it'll last that long) until Windows 10 support expires, but by then I'm hoping for a decent upgrade to an M3/M4 machine with ample support for the operating systems and applications I need. But it's the pesky licensing, reliability and performance that continues to give me pause. I'm totally willing to accept permanent virtualization of future Windows installations instead of a native solution. I continue to love the current setup I have now. Of course it's nice to boot into Windows natively and play some games at a decent FPS. Mainly as a web developer and tester I need access to several OSes and don't want to have to run simultaneous machines to do it, which seems inefficient and inconvenient to me.
I might be a flag-toting member of the niche user parade, but this is the primary reason I'm still running a maxed out Mac Pro 5,1 with macOS, Windows 10 and Linux (sometimes virtualized, sometimes native, depending on use case).
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