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It may be to avoid appearing to be misleading. They'll almost certainly be able to virtualize ARM-based Windows, but that's not what normal users are looking fo
by moduspol 6y ago
It may be to avoid appearing to be misleading. They'll almost certainly be able to virtualize ARM-based Windows, but that's not what normal users are looking for when they want to virtualize Windows.
- xeeeeeeeeeeenu 6y agoWhy not? Windows 10 for ARM can run x86 apps.
- notRobot 6y ago...very poorly. And only 32-bit apps.
- snazz 6y agoYes. It appears that Rosetta 2 beats Microsoft's x86 emulation by a long shot. I wonder how they're avoiding Intel patents.
- donarb 6y agoWhat patents? All Apple is doing is translating x86 instructions to ARM instructions, they’re not emulating the processor.
- mobiliakas1 6y agoKeep in mind that current macOS runs ONLY 64-bit x86 apps and interestingly Windows on ARM emulates ONLY 32-bit apps. Since 64-bit extensions were designed by AMD, maybe they have some deal with them?
- cmiles74 6y agoI wouldn't expect Windows for ARM to run on Apple's custom chips.
- moduspol 6y agoI did not know that. Perhaps it's just to temper expectations then. If the performance or user experience isn't comparable to what today's users expect, it's probably better not to celebrate that use case.
- Mindwipe 6y ago> Why not? Windows 10 for ARM can run x86 apps. Nobody who has ever attempted to use it would claim this.
- r00fus 6y agoHow many people still use Parallels or other virtualization for their Macs? I've stopped doing that years ago. No need now - if you want to play Windows games, buy a PC - it's a lot cheaper.
- moduspol 6y agoI don't. I used Parallels for a while, and it was great, but then we kind of standardized on VirtualBox at work. It was okay. But then our dev environments got too big to run on laptops, so now they're all cloud-hosted VMs. We still run Docker (which uses a VM under the covers for Mac) but that uses Apple's Hypervisor framework and isn't really "user-facing" virtualization.
- runxel 6y agoStill alot, I'd reason. Especially – and funnily enough – in business contexts, where you need to run software which are each only available on either Mac or Windows, but not both.
- r00fus 6y agoDo you have any examples? I was running VMWare Fusion until about 2015 for my office laptop for Visio and Project, at which point I felt no need on my next refresh to simply not request it due to cloud-based alternatives.
- runxel 6y agoYes, the NURBS (surface) modeler "Rhino" is one – or rather was; meanwhile it got a Mac version, but that one still has no feature parity, so you would still see this running in Parallels somewhere, I guess.