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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 helel on Monday June 29 2020, @04:59AM
Sadly the age of (relatively) mature software seems to be past and things are only getting worse, year by year.
As for loss of market share - Chances are most people didn't purchase a mac with the intent of running Windows anyway. The bigger problem, to my point of view, is the damage this will do to WINE and other interpreters which, right now, makes it fast and (relatively) easy to run Windows executables in OS X and that's not a problem most people are going to realize until the latest spyware media app doesn't get released for the mac long after they bought it.