Microsoft Brings x64 Emulation to Windows on Arm PCs

[Alan Wynn]

Well, It seems Apple is giving mixed signals then. The link I posted was pretty unambiguous and your link too. Both put together they seem pretty ambiguous to me

I do not think so. Here is the text from the page to which you linked:

But Windows running natively on an M1 machine is "really up to Microsoft," Federighi said in the interview.

"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. But that's a decision Microsoft has to make, to bring to license that technology for users to run on these Macs. But the Macs are certainly very capable of it," he added.

The text highlighted is not actually a quote, but the writer's interpretation of what Craig Federighi was saying, where as what I quoted was all his words. The video of the interview from which my quote came is available on line (it was from the Daring Fireball WWDC Podcast). Since that interview, I have seen quite a few others that said the same thing, and the first that said something different is a paraphrase.

While it is possible that Apple's thinking has evolved, it seems more likely that the other reporter misunderstood what was being said or was using "natively" to mean running on the hardware vs. via something like a Remote Desktop (something also mentioned).