'That's really up to Microsoft… We have the core technologies for them to do that, to run their ARM version of Windows, which in turn of course supports x86 user mode applications. What Apple has saidĪpple Vice President for Software Engineering Craig Federighi recently told Ars Technica that its quite possible to run Windows on the new Macs:

The latter firm recently drew attention to a Microsoft note concerning Windows 10 running on ARM processors. This proof-of-concept augurs well for the work virtualization company Parallels is doing to enable virtual machine support on the new Apple chips. In itself, this suggests that if Microsoft and Apple support Windows on ARM for Apple Silicon Macs, the performance data could be even higher. What makes these scores all the more impressive is that the developer had to figure out how to get the Windows system running on the Mac in the first place. Here are the Geekbench 5 test results for the Mac running Windows 10 on ARM in a virtual machine:įinally, what follows are the claimed Surface Pro X scores on the same test: