![]() Luckily this changed with the arrival of Parallels Desktop 18 in 2022, which added the ability to download and buy the ARM version of Windows 11 directly within Parallels itself. The main problem here is that WoA isn’t normally licensed to individual users, which has meant that owners of M-series Macs faced both technical and licensing problems if they wanted to run Windows on their Macs. Windows On ARM, aka WoA, is Microsoft’s version of Windows is designed to run on ARM chips. ![]() The good news is that an ARM version of Windows does exist. Even if Boot Camp was an option for modern Macs, because the M-series processors are not compatible with the x86 version of Windows, they would only be able to run an ARM version of Windows. Rather than the x86 architecture used by Intel processors, Apple’s processors use a different architecture, known as ARM (named after Arm Ltd, the British company that originally designed the chips). Now every Mac Apple sells has an Apple-made M-series processor. However, in 2020 Apple started its move away from Intel processors to its own Apple Silicon processors. There are millions of Intel-based Macs still in use all around the world that can still use either Boot Camp or virtualization to run Windows. The only disadvantage is that you need a pretty fast Mac with plenty of memory and storage to run Windows as a VM, since it means that your Mac is effectively running two operating systems at the same time. This is a great solution as it allows you to run the Windows apps that you need right alongside your main Mac apps as well. So you can create a VM on your Mac and then install Windows – or another operating system, such as Linux – on the VM. Virtualization programs such as Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion run on the macOS, but allow you to create a Virtual Machine (or VM) that mimics the hardware of a Windows PC. Luckily there are plenty, many of which use virtualization to create a Virtual Machine that emulates the computer system required to run the operating system of your choice. In the case of M-series Macs, and for anyone with an older Mac that wants to run Windows 11, or two or more operating systems side by side, you’ll need an alternative to Boot Camp. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t install Windows on a M-series Mac, it’s just a little more complicated because the M-series chips are ARM-based so you need an ARM version of Windows. So if you have purchased a Mac in the past couple of years, and it doesn’t have an Intel processor, Boot Camp won’t even be an option. The availability of EC2 Mac instances also offloads the heavy lifting that comes with managing infrastructure to AWS, which means Apple developers can focus entirely on building great apps.There’s another issue with Boot Camp that is even more pressing though: it isn’t a feature of M-series Macs. ![]() Similar to other EC2 instances, customers can easily use EC2 Mac instances together with AWS services and features like Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for network security, Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for fast and expandable storage, Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) for distributing build queues, Amazon FSx for scalable file storage, and AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for configuring, managing, and patching macOS environments. Customers can also consolidate development of Apple, Windows, and Android apps onto AWS, leading to increased developer productivity and accelerated time to market. With EC2 Mac instances, developers are now able to leverage the flexibility, elasticity, and scale of AWS so they can increase their focus on core innovation such as developing creative and useful apps and spend less time on managing infrastructure. Today, millions of Apple developers rely on macOS and its innovative tools, frameworks, and APIs to develop, build, test, and sign apps for Apple’s industry-leading platforms that serve more than a billion customers globally.
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