Please note the directions below are for individuals that have downloaded Office from Office 365, and are not intended for the volume-licensed edition. But at least that support has finally arrived.Mac desktop and laptop systems owned by the University of Alaska may have a volume-license edition of Microsoft Office, and not Microsoft 365 apps for Enterprise installed. These issues, I think, might help explain why Microsoft wouldn’t officially support Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs for so long. “The preferred customer experience is to run 64-bit Arm apps, but customers can also use apps in 圆4 or x86 emulation on Mac M1 and M2 computers.” “32-bit Arm apps are in the process of being deprecated for all Arm versions of Windows,” Microsoft adds. Also not supported: 32-bit Arm apps from the Microsoft Store. But Microsoft also revealed that some Windows 11 features will not work in this configuration because they use their own forms of virtualization: features like Windows Subsystem for Android, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows Sandbox, and Virtualization-based Security are not supported.Īnd some other experiences, like DirectX 12, are likewise not supported. So there’s the first caveat: the least expensive option, Windows 11 Home, is not supported. “Parallels Desktop version 18 is an authorized solution for running Arm versions of Windows 11 Pro and Windows 11 Enterprise in a virtual environment on its platform on Apple M1 and M2 computers,” Microsoft notes. But now this option is officially supported. Originally, you needed to install a Windows Insider Preview build and keep it up to date. The second has been available since the introduction of the Apple M1 chipset and the resulting first generation of Apple Silicon-based Macs, albeit in somewhat unsupported form: you can run Windows 11 on Arm in a virtual machine using Parallels Desktop.
You can learn more about this option, and its pricing, on the Microsoft website. The first is streaming a Windows 11 Cloud PC to the Mac using Windows 365, of course. “When such an option is not available, here are two different ways to use Windows with Mac.” “Windows 11 runs best on a PC designed for Windows,” Microsoft notes.
And I think it revealed the reason this support was so long in the making, too. Microsoft revealed that it now supports running Windows 11 in a virtual machine using Parallels Desktop on Apple Silicon-based Macs.
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