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Let me get this straight. The "Official" part of Windows running on Mac silicon is Microsoft officially saying you should use Parallels to run Windows on Macs. Officially non-news.

I never thought I would admit this but Parallels Continuity Mode was a game changer for me. My entire business runs off Mac and it’s ecosystem natively but I need to use several engineering tools that are built for windows only. Having continuity mode enabled allows me to just Alt Tab into a windows program right from mac without having to switch between environments. It really took some getting used to but I would recommend trying it out for a couple days if you haven’t

I sure wish it wasn't subscription based software. I'll stick with open source UTM until Parallels brings us DX12 support.

I've used Windows personally and professionally since Windows 3 beta. I bought an M1 Macbook Air when it first came out, got Windows running on it, and have to admit, it is the best Windows laptop I've ever used.

I installed parallels and win11 3 days ago and i was shocked by the performance and features.. it's insanely good! On a Mac mini 16gb.

Yep, since M1 came out, I’ve also been using parallels as an power bi developer. It’s the best of both world. 😊

these devs at parallels are some lovely geniuses.

In Apple’s defense, wouldn’t Boot Camp on ARM be drastically different from the old Boot Camp? In the olden days, Macs were mostly standard PC hardware inside, so Boot Camp didn’t do much. Now on Silicon, Boot Camp would either have to map Windows and Linux to a ton of custom (and secretive) Apple hardware, or emulate PC hardware. Would it be any better than virtualization?

I think part of the problem is that MS needs either to build Windows for other ARM SoCs or needs to hire silicon engineers to build their own like Apple did. I think the engineering can be done but MS needs to take this endeavor seriously.

windows on mac has no right to be this good. I was able to install engineering software and run it faster than my work laptop. the M series chips are wild.

Me: "Holy shit!" Alex: "Support in Parallels" Me: "Oh"

0:18: you got that mixed up. Parallels was the first virtualization solution for Intel Macs. Fusion came quite a bit later.

I suspect that for most people the most economical method is to just buy 2 computers if you really must have a Mac with the absurd prices Apple charges for upgrades. You're going to need a memory and storage upgrade, which puts you at $400. Put in another $200 and you can get a pretty decent PC laptop for $600. For me, the stuff I need Windows for requires drivers that only run on Intel Core processors 11th Gen and older, so AS isn't even an option. It technically works on all x86 processors, but on AMD or even Celeron chips it crashes a lot. I tried it on a Surface Pro X and it doesn't run at all - well it says it's running, but nothing works. That and games, but at that point Mac just disqualifies itself.

I have been using Windows 11 on my M2 Macbook Air, 16GB for a while now. And I found myself using ONLY Windows 11! For some reason I find Windows running much smoother than MacOS on my machine - even though it's a VM! Further, my VM Windows on Mac runs even faster than my Asus Windows laptop!

VMWare Fusion is free for personal use, but you have to package your own ISO from Windows Insider and pay for a Windows license to remove watermark.

I’ve been using parallels since 2008. It’s been available longer than you thought, also it’s always been the better option compared to VMware fusion. In 2008 I was on version 4, now it’s on 18!

I prefer to stay within macOS these days, but it’s great to have the option to run Windows if you need certain apps…

These social media people are just a joke. windows still runs on parallels no support of any real kind. Youre welcome.

Why do we need to runs Windows on arm on a Mac?

This is such great news!

I tried it on an entry level (8GB RAM, 256 SSD) Macbook Air M1 (first model) and it ran well. I used an external monitor to run the Parallels Windows 11 while watching an FullHD stream on Twitch on Mac's screen. All setup was seamlessly fine and fast (~7min, 200mb fiber internet) and I ran Counter Strike (1.6) with steady 100 fps even forcing a lil bit (with smokes). Sometimes there was some chokes, maybe because I had Chrome open on Mac with tons os tabs open and also the Twitch stream. Overall was a good experience.

exactly! WINDOWS is running MUCH better on a vm (i used PARALLELS) on a mac than on a pc machine - i always wondered why 🤔

Parallels is okay for some production apps. But for gaming, totally useless! Boot Camp was the only way to use Windows on a Mac for gaming.

Great news! But now the waiting is for Microsoft to support Windows 11 ARM boot natively on Apple Silicon Macs. Apple needs to release Windows drivers for its hardware (just like Bootcamp).

The problem with going through virtualisation to windows in a Mac is that it is almost impossible to set up a CUDA environment and it is completely impossible to recognise and external NVIDIA GPU. The only way was to run windows natively using boot camp. This is the reason why I will not leave Intel architecture to move to M2 processors.

😅Landed a contract in Philly back in 2009, walked into a meeting with my MacBook to facilitate a presentation & was meet with, “We use MicroSoft here not Windows”. I said not a problem, launched VMWare Fusion & Windows & transferred my Presentation to PowerPoint & conducted the presentation. When it came to the Q&A, most were about me running both operating systems at the same time & how quickly I was able to transfer & convert files. I still have the 2008 MacBook but it’s pretty much a brick now.

When can I play games on the MAC??

I was changing my brand new Mac book air to a brand new laptop pc. I really need windows on it, and this arm version have a lot on bugs. And also the price for pd is insane. That’s such a shame apple cannot come up with some fix like it was before. Boot-camp was working properly when I was having an older Mac with intel.

You need to have a great reason to use parallels due to how expensive it is.

I bought M2 MacBook Air 13" last February for the MacOS after having been with Windows for some time. I guess I'm one of those not that thrilled about Windows on Mac being official.

Actually I might prefer the opposite, having MacOS running on my older PC laptop, just because Stable Diffusion generation is 5 times faster on that Nvidia GPU than on my M1 Pro

Parallel has been running Wins on Mac for a longtime (at least 30 years), so it has to be very compatible and competent.

I use Parallels to run the native windows version of Excel . Performance is excellent.

currently using UTM software, I love it because it is free, however Parallel still runs smoothly and feels different as I was able to try the trial version before.

I had Parallels on my iMac in 2011 - I don’t know what you were looking at in 2013 because it was available.

I prefer the new VMware fusion player 13 which is entirely free for personal use. Windows 11 Pro works seamlessly on my MacBook Pro 14 M2.

I use UTM, based on QEMU. Maybe not like parallels but it’s free open-source and works super nice !

I have a 2015 MacBook Pro i7 2.5ghz, Intel Iris Pro Graphic, 16g ram 512g ssd. I have 350g available HD space. I would like to run some Windows astrophotography applications, basically image editing programs that have special editing features. I doubt I’d run anything on the Mac side while using the Windows side. I figure I could allocate 8g of Ram for Windows. Now Parallels 19 is out. Am I just wasting time and money even using the Parallels 14 day trail and buying a Windows license on a almost 9 year old MacBook Pro?

Windows running in Parallel's hyper-v has been supported on M1 Macs for a while now. Rather the good news is Microsoft is providing ARM WIN11 support via Parallels.

I’ve been using Windows on my M1 MBP running on Parallels for over a year now and find the process nearly seamless. I can actually take a document in windows, right click it and open in Word for Mac. This is by far the best virtual system I’ve ever used. Still, given that I’ve been using it for a year, what exactly has changed that prompted Microsoft’s announcement? Weird.

I actually installed this last night after the news broke to check it out. Very impressive performance on M1 Pro. I did run some updates and mess around with the Microsoft Store which did trigger the "activate windows today" window. But I just closed it and nothing bad happened. I'm curious what the grace period is before they get aggressive.

"Small" drawback: Bootcamp was free, Parallels isn't.

Hi, I am struggling to use Power BI on my macbook pro (2.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, version: 12.6.7 (21G651), macOS: Monterey). I watched the video and came to know that you are pretty happy with Parallels app for the similar purpose. However, you have mentioned that you use a macbook M1 or M1-max. Does it mean that parallels is not for other machines like mine? Appreciate your reply.

It was cheaper to buy a used thinkpad. It’s useful to have x86 around for now.

Still waiting for native running/booting windows 😌

My iMac is not supported by Apple. I could only update up to a point and it broke all of my Adobe stuff. I would like to build a PC that can virtually run whatever OS I like. Any ideas?

Surely Google will have to release Chrome ARM64 Windows soon. The more people using ARM Windows, the better!

A question popped up inside my head about eGPU. Could an external GPU be used with parallels ON MAC? 😮

My jaw dropped at Continuity Mode. Such a simple UI change that makes a world of difference.

Many games don’t work with windows parallels due to their anti cheat system, would love it if windows bought official support with arm drivers for mac which can be installed using bootcamp

All browsers on Mac are only skins of Webkit the engine of Safari, so you don't really get "Edge" per say

The M2 Max MBP just became the fastest ARM based laptop to run Windows 🤣(seriously... everyone competing in the SOC space should be embarrassed by this. It's doing it through a virtualization layer...). I might need to buy a copy of this just for the rare times I need to use MS Office (yes, the Mac version exists - and it is terrible) or another "only/better on Windows" app.

As good as Parallels is, a virtual machine will never replace the native experience. Too many unnecessary abstraction layers always lead to a decreased performance which is unacceptable in itself. If this is truly the “official” way of running Windows on Macs now, this is officially one of the most terrible news in the coming months (years?) for the Mac community. Its sucks that they’ll never make regular drivers until Windows on ARM laptops keep up with the Macs. Running anything through a VM really is the best way to make it considerably slower and laggier. I guess, that’s what Microsoft wants for the Mac users. A software monopoly at its best, business as usual.

What do you mean when you say that Parallels was "not in the picture" in 2013? Parallels has been the top-performing option for running Windows in a VM on Mac since it was first released in 2006. It was built specifically to run Windows on macOS (Mac OS X as it was known as then). VMware Fusion wasn't released until 2007, and didn't achieve anything close to feature parity with Parallels until 2009. The only reason VMware saw more use in enterprise environments is that VMware had already established itself as the enterprise choice for virtualization. Did I mishear what you said? What I heard you say (at time index 00:19) does not make sense given what I recall from using switching to a Mac and using Parallels and VMware Fusion in the 2006 - 2010 period.

I should say it does work but make sure you have a strong enough Mac before attempting this (it works really badly on the MacBook air 2015 so make sure its a really new laptop, I just wish it was subscription based)

I ended up getting a very nice Mac mini set up huge monitor and just never ever liked the macOS operating system so what I found is that my Mac worked much better with windows even using Boot Camp than it ever did as a Mac with a macOS I’m sure many people who run windows on their Mac have found the same thing when it was incredibly fast on Mac compared to the macOS on the Mac so Mac, how long has a long way to go as far as I’m concerned up as far as being comparable to windows yes, they have their closed ecosystem but windows operating system always ran fast on my Mac

Just a slight correction, you state that in 2013 parallels wasn't a thing. That is not correct, parallels has been around since 2006, as far as I remember VMware fusion was released about a year later.

So are you essentially saying that I would not have to buy a Windows license with the software?

I use Windows and Mac devices. And most people actually do. The only time I use simulation or virtualization apps is when I run Linux flavors on my devices.

the final form of windows on arm 😂

I love parallels. I always try the free option, then the cheaper options and I tried EVERY SINGLE VM software I could find that works on m1 and parallels is simply so far ahead. I currently only have the trial and instantly upon setup I realised parallels is soooooooooo much easier to use, plus the interface is faster as well

Parallels is easy to use though but it has issues with sound and mic drivers, tested in windows, Ubuntu & RHEL9

And what is difference if you install windows on virtual machine without parallel?

Windows 11 ARM runs great with Parallels. Really easy to install and the network drive setup it does along with coherent modes it great. Def worth the $120 a year but def could be cheaper imo.

I canceled my parallels subscription. The software I use for CNC machining will not work using parallels. Instead I bought a used laptop that I keep in my office at home. I then use Jump Desktop for a one time fee of $35 to remote in from anywhere in the world using my MacBook Pro

“Windows run better on a virtual machine ON A MAC!” This funny line just made my day ☀️

Brands like Asus, Dell, Acer, lenovo etc. can also adopt Mac OS in their high end laptops (non-gaming). This will be the world's big event if it happens in the future.

Still virtual machine. Let users choose which to install as 100% working as it should, without workarounds and having 2 OSs at the same time. Also set the price accordingly. Doesn't make sense that you will pay for 2 OSs in case you want to use only one.

I like your clear pronunciation and good speed, it is easy to understand you without subtitles without being an advanced English user, thanks for that!

The latest 8cx is just snapdragon 855 rebranded

It's a major plus for Microsoft to do everything in their power to ensure that their OS works on a Mac as well as the PC machines. It's all about choice and availability. There are programs out there that only work on PC's.

The only thing I don't like about it is that it is licensed for only one machine. I have it on my Mac Mini but if I want to use it on my Macbook I have to purchase another license.

can someone explain why the ad that came before the video is a Parallels ad talking exactly about whats the video will later tell me? this is insane

With the 130€ purchase can I permanently buy it without any monthly/yearly fees?

Parallels is far the best virtualization option for mac. UTM (QEMU frontend) is a REALLY good option for those who just want to run an Linux distribution too. But to run Windows, Parallels has no competitor

Anyone else having this problem? I bought Windows 11 Pro on Friday, entered my product key, it downloaded some extra stuff.... Yesterday when I clicked on Parallels, it told me I had to download Windows 11. (?). I thought I already had, but okay. But now it says I'm not activated again. I type in my product key and it says that product key was already used on another machine. (?).

What’s 1 click about this, I am already running(download ->setup)the same for the past 1 year

Use UTM and ARM64 Windows it’s running perfect on my M2 Air AND you can do auto spice drivers which pre installs the DRIVERS!!!

Win11 arm64 is insanely fast on parallel, I get better effective performance on M2 MBA than on my 12700

Opinions please! Is it good for swift programming?

I have been saving money for about 2 year to get this computer but my income is to low but I except to have at the end of this year. Thanks for your videos I've learned a lot.

Congrats for your channel, amazing work, quick question can I use windows on Mac (using parallels) to work in a virtual desktop that uses windows natively? thank you in advance

Hi bro ! What are the key functions like for the windows software, for example to they all work and say if you click command does it act like your clicking the windows button, also can you go full screen

What's the difference between the Windows you get directly in Parallels (as you did in the video) vs. arm version of windows you get using Microsoft's Windows Insider program (the old way)?

I don't know why you're talking like it's Microsoft that would write even a single driver for Windows on Apple Silicon. All Microsoft has to do is give their blessing to run Windows for ARM on non-Snapdragon CPUs, and Apple will do the rest, as they already said they would do, and as they ALWAYS have done on the Intel Macs. Either they or their hardware vendors wrote every single driver for Bootcamp, Microsoft had nothing to do with it. The only possible thing they may need to do is work with Apple to support Apple Silicon memory management, and they'd very likely just give Apple the NT kernel's source code (or just the relevant portions) like they typically do for high profile driver developers and let Apple write the necessary changes themselves. Though given that the dev of m1n1_Windows has shown that a bootloader could do that low-level work with just a hardware abstraction layer, it can literally all be done by Apple without a single thing being done by Microsoft other than allowing the purchasing of licenses for the ARM64 version of Windows. It's not unheard of for Apple to write specific firmware extensions explicitly for running Windows, they wrote an entire BIOS emulator for Windows XP, Vista, and 7 Bootcamp, and they expanded their EFI implementation to support Windows properly once 8 added support for EFI/UEFI. The same can be done here, all it takes is Apple adding a UEFI to the iBoot bootloader/firmware that AS Macs use. More info here for those interested: github.com/amarioguy/m1n1_windows

Hey, I think I finally found what I'm looking for! I am currently using a M1 MacBook Pro and I'm also currently enrolled in school for CS but their school site is better used if you have windows. I don't play video games on my Mac so that being said, would you recommend to connect an SSD or would I be fine running off of my 1 terabyte? Or is it still too much memory? Also is it really necessary to purchase the parallels subscription or is there an alternative? Thank you in advance

that music at the end 10/10

I would like to see some comparison benchmarks if it means something or just microsoft saying we support it officialy

the problem here is parallels you have to pay every month or yearly subscription fees so not worth it

and microsoft doesnt want to license it for m1 directly only for VM. Microsoft doesn't want to let it run natively cause they in a License agreement with Qualcomm

I just ran away from Windows. I really do not want to go back. I ended at 10 Pro. Started in DOS

This video seems to make the assumption at least twice that when Apple said it was "up to Microsoft" for Windows to run natively on Apple Silicon, that it meant Microsoft would need to do the work. I don't think that was the case at all, because of Microsoft's Windows on ARM exclusivitiy agreement with Qualcomm that expired at the end of last year. With Bootcamp Apple was still responsible for distributing their own drivers and software for their hardware (aside from the standard components that had official drivers) and that would not change with ARM. The licensing agreement was Apple's excuse for no bootcamp on Apple Silicon, that situation has ended and the ball is back in Apple's court. If they want native support they can just ship their own drivers for it and a stub to make it bootable.

Nice video, I’m a digital modeller, and need to use Autodesk Alias, can I run this on a virtual machine on perils?

blew me away. windows on parallels on my m1 mac is the best windows experience i’ve ever had.

Do you think the MacBook Pro M2 Pro base model would be good for me as an automotive engineering student? I'd have to use apps such as Autocad, Solidworks and Ansys which is available only on Windows. But there are some features on Mac where it would want me to go for such as battery life, how easy it is to transfer files from iPhone to Mac, the portability and video editing capability. I'm gonna use parallel with the student plan and im going for the pro version since it lets you use more than 8GB of VM apparently? You think the Mac would be a good choice for me?

My dude, Parallels was established and popular software amongst Mac users way, way before 2013.

Well, it’s a start, but I hope they get to a Boot Camp ready version soon for Apple Silicon!

Thanks for doing this video. It’s great to know Windows will run on Apple Silicon decently and hopefully faster than my 2015 MacBook Pro.

Cool. Does the windows 11 hotspot function work on your macbook?