Windows 10 or 11 Compatibility

[DynamicNotch]

Curious if Microsoft will support the M1 Pro/Max and/or if they can be Bootcamped for Windows.

Would like to get a MBP because of my Apple ecosystem but might just be easier to buy a Windows laptop in place of my 2016 MBP

 

[PBG4 Dude]

If you want to run Windows, you basically need an Intel chip for maximum Windows software compatibility.

 

[DynamicNotch]

It’s a shame the Intel version has no ports for all of my connections

 

[Lwii2boo]

It will probably happen the true question is when and how is it optimized.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Curious if Microsoft will support the M1 Pro/Max and/or if they can be Bootcamped for Windows.

Would like to get a MBP because of my Apple ecosystem but might just be easier to buy a Windows laptop in place of my 2016 MBP

NEVER ! You will need Intel Mac to run this in Bootcamp. M1 is RISC and different than is Intel, so no.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

Microsoft will, if not already, run into the same problem with Intel chips that prompted the Apple move. This is that for the past few years there has been little advance in speed with the Intel chips overall. If MS wants to keep up with performance, they will need to look to a newer architecture.

Apple has been able to do this already because they are a smaller, more agile company than MS.

MS is already porting Windows to ARM chips, which is why you can now install Windows onto a Raspberry Pi.

In order to keep up the appearance of a faster OS, MS has tweaked Windows 11 so that it shoves System procedures into the background and User procedures (such as loading and running Word, Outlook, Edge) to the foreground more aggressively than with Win 10. That means you can boot Windows, load Office and get working more quickly than before. However, this sort of trick can only get you so far.

Microsoft will need to look to a new architecture fairly quickly if it doesn't want to get left behind. Whether they go M1, or ARM or something completely different, we will need to wait and see...

 

[MBAir2010]

In order to keep up the appearance of a faster OS, MS has tweaked Windows 11 so that it shoves System procedures into the background and User procedures (such as loading and running Word, Outlook, Edge) to the foreground more aggressively than with Win 10. That means you can boot Windows, load Office and get working more quickly than before. However, this sort of trick can only get you so far.

thank you for a clear and precise explanation of windows11.
this explains why i am having some bugs with programs that ran perfect in widows1 0
i do read PC world and tweet with some of their writers who overlooked this aspect of windows11.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Microsoft will, if not already, run into the same problem with Intel chips that prompted the Apple move. This is that for the past few years there has been little advance in speed with the Intel chips overall. If MS wants to keep up with performance, they will need to look to a newer architecture.

Apple has been able to do this already because they are a smaller, more agile company than MS.

MS is already porting Windows to ARM chips, which is why you can now install Windows onto a Raspberry Pi.

In order to keep up the appearance of a faster OS, MS has tweaked Windows 11 so that it shoves System procedures into the background and User procedures (such as loading and running Word, Outlook, Edge) to the foreground more aggressively than with Win 10. That means you can boot Windows, load Office and get working more quickly than before. However, this sort of trick can only get you so far.

Microsoft will need to look to a new architecture fairly quickly if it doesn't want to get left behind. Whether they go M1, or ARM or something completely different, we will need to wait and see...

Maybe they will go PowerPC.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

Maybe they will go PowerPC.

PowerPC was a RISC* chip. I read somewhere (perhaps on this board) that the M1 is a RISC chip. So, it is not inconceivable that Microsoft will go for a RISC chip, either an existing one, or, like the M1 is of Apple's design, perhaps a new one of MS's design.

Who knows?**

* Reduced Instruction Set Chip
** The Shadow Knows...***

***OK, 10 brownie points and a gold star to the first who gets that reference.

 

[Joeronzk]

Boot Camp is no longer available on Apple Silicon Mac. This is really bad!

 

[PBG4 Dude]

Boot Camp is no longer available on Apple Silicon Mac. This is really bad!

MS doesn’t sell retail licenses for Windows on ARM, hence no reason for Apple to offer boot camp.

 

[4743913]

MS doesn’t sell retail licenses for Windows on ARM, hence no reason for Apple to offer boot camp.

<<laughs in i9>>

I am afraid the winning strategy in the future will be to tote a high end windows notebook (for gaming) and an m1 macbook air in your bag. I am keeping my 2019 Macbook Pro until it dies before I start toting two.