Parallels Desktop 18 now supports Windows 11 on Macs with Apple M1 and M2 ARM SoCs

Although traditionally Apple had not objected to the execution of Windows on its computers, quite the opposite by offering solutions such as bootcamp, the leap that the company made towards ARM architecture integrating its own Apple Silicon SoCs meant that support for Windows 11 was lost .

Now the virtualization app for Mac, Parallels Desktop 18, has announced that they can now officially support Windows 11 on Macs with Apple’s M1 and M2 SoCs based on the ARM architecture. Naturally, the version of Windows 11 that is compatible is Windows 11 ARM, the same one that we were able to test in the Lenovo Thinkpad X13s Review, with x86 emulation and support for features such as the Linux or Android subsystem, in addition to DirectX12.

Microsoft itself supports this Parallels Desktop solution and has authorized as an integration platform in the Apple M1 and M2.

In this way, it is possible to have a Mac with the versatility offered by being able to have different operating systems and compatibility with all kinds of software. Naturally, it is necessary to have a valid Windows 11 license. On the other hand, it seems that it will only work with Windows 11 Pro and the business version Windows 11 Enterprise.

Windows 10 was already compatible with Apple’s M1 chips through Parallels, but it hasn’t been until now that Windows 11 has been able to run virtualized on these new SoCs.

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