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Apple's New ARM-Based Macs Won't Support Windows Through Boot Camp:
Apple will start switching its Macs to its own ARM-based processors later this year, but you won't be able to run Windows in Boot Camp mode on them. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn't made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install.
"Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to OEMs," says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. We asked Microsoft if it plans to change this policy to allow Windows 10 on ARM-based Macs, and the company says "we have nothing further to share at this time."
[...] Apple later confirmed it's not planning to support Boot Camp on ARM-based Macs in a Daring Fireball podcast. "We're not direct booting an alternate operating system," says Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering. "Purely virtualization is the route. These hypervisors can be very efficient, so the need to direct boot shouldn't really be the concern."
Previously: Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday June 27 2020, @09:32PM
Of course not, but a lot of times there's this 15+ year old legacy app, nobody even knows what it was written in anymore, but half the company sorta depends on it for stuff they think they need to do (to make money), so... if you can just get that thing running in the new system - even if it's ugly - it will probably be more than good enough to run a 15+ year old app.
What I think this move really says is that OS-X has grown up, they have their own market, and their market mostly isn't angsty about maybe having to jump back to Windows like they were in 2006. In 2006 I was asked to sign off on the concept of committing the company to buy a bunch of Mac hardware, with the "new" x86 triple boot capability that was a no-brainer decision.
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