Microsoft supports the Apple M1 processor, quietly making special edition Win10 to adapt Microsoft is more open and understands its mission as a software company. In particular, many products are no longer bound to the Win platform and spare no effort to optimize for non-Win platforms.
Some clues can be seen from the Office suite and Edge browser adapting to the Apple M1 processor. I did not expect that Microsoft is still silently supporting it in private, this time to allow Win10 to run on the M1 Mac.
A few days ago, Parallels released a beta software for M1 Mac (Parallels Desktop 16 for Mac Technical Preview). This well-known simulation software finally realized support for M1 running Win10. Unlike the QEMU simulation that we introduced before, Parallels uses a genuine Win10 license.
Since the current Windows 10 on an ARM is only bound to specific Qualcomm hardware, and there is no public retail version, Omar Shahine, vice president of Microsoft OneDrive, revealed that in order to help Parallels develop, Microsoft has issued a specific Win10 ARM version to support it.
However, as far as MacRumors’ experience is concerned, it was okay at the beginning, and all kinds of errors began to appear after running for an hour, which is terrible.
