Within the estimated 100 billion galaxies that populate the known universe, there are few unknown people who run Windows natively on a MacBook. But those rare specimens may soon follow the dodo’s path: In a Daring Fireball podcast, Apple revealed that it doesn’t plan to support Boot Camp on its upcoming ARM-based Macs.
In the podcast, Apple executive Craig Federighi said that “virtualization is purely the route, but tThese hypervisors can be very efficient, so the need to start directly shouldn’t be a concern. “In other words, you’ll be able to run some operating systems with software like Parallels, but you won’t be able to run them natively on boot. From what we can tell, Boot Camp will no longer exist.
That should be fine for free operating systems that already support ARM processors, like various variants of Linux, but Microsoft doesn’t currently sell its ARM version of Windows 10 to the public. When i asked The edge On future plans to sell the ARM version of Windows, Microsoft says, “We have nothing more to share at this time.” Also, existing virtualization applications will have to be rebuilt for the new hardware, although Apple has already shown Parallels with Linux on a virtual machine.
Considering that Microsoft and Apple are making long-term bets on ARM, I wouldn’t be surprised if Windows application support Finally It got to Mac, but it doesn’t look like it will happen anytime soon. Fortunately, we live in a time when much of the work we do is done in browsers and in the cloud, and most major applications have support for both operating systems. But whether you regularly have to run Windows on your Mac for work or not, you’ll have to think twice about putting the dough in for ARM-based Apple silicon.
Via The Verge
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Published June 26, 2020 – 00:30 UTC
