



Microsoft’s declaration doesn’t necessarily mean that Windows 11 won’t run on an M1 Mac, via Parallels it does mean, for now, that Parallels will have to do the engineering work required to essentially trick Windows 11 into accepting that all is well. Microsoft’s Windows on Arm program has ensured that Windows 11 will run on Arm PCs like the Surface Pro X, just not on Apple’s Arm-based M1 Macs. “Support” depends on whether the PC platform meets Microsoft’s Windows 11 hardware specifications, which the company has aggressively set in an effort to assure the PC is secure. As anyone who has followed the Windows 11 upgrade path understands, “supported” and “unsupported” are subtly complicated terms that refer to whether or not the Windows 11 operating system will run as expected.
