[runjake]

Spoiler: It's not about running Windows 11 natively on Apple Silicon.

This announcement doesn't change anything, in practice, but it does suggest that more hardware support may be coming.

[gambiting]

Uh....did we read the same article?? It's about natively running Windows 11 directly on ARM.

[runjake]

That is not what this article says at all. Quite the opposite.

To do so would probably require Apple to release some drivers (or hardware specs to Microsoft). It's not a matter of just "porting to ARM64" (which is already done), it's about porting to Apple's Apple Silicon platform.

[lockhouse]

No, it describes 2 options for running Windows: Streaming it from the cloud and virtualizing it via Parallels.

Windows lacks the drivers to run directly on M1/M2 Macs.

[mrkstu]

To be perfectly clear, the virtualization is for ARM, so you're getting native level performance with ARM apps and the Windows emulation of x86 instructions flies along pretty well too.