Parallels Desktop expands to M3 Macs. Parallels Desktop lets you run Windows 11 as a virtual machine on macOS.

Anyone who owns a Mac but is secretly a Windows fan will have to look for loopholes to run Microsoft’s operating system. The Parallels Desktop app has offered such a loophole for years and has also been officially supported by Microsoft for a year. Microsoft is now announcing that Parallels Desktop can also run Windows 11 on Macs with the latest M3 chip, announced late last year.

Parallels Desktop offers Mac users the ability to run Windows 11 as a virtual machine on the native macOS operating system. This can be useful if you want to use an exclusive Windows application. Additionally, Parallels Desktop is also designed to optimize the Windows experience on Apple hardware. M3 chip support applies only to versions 18 and 19.

The correct version

Make sure you choose the right version of Windows: Apple’s M chips only accept the 64-bit version of Windows 11. You don’t have to worry too much about that: a Windows 11 VM runs on the ARM Version and Microsoft not yet We have been developing 32-bit applications for this for more than a year. There are some Windows applications that you cannot transfer to macOS because they require an additional layer of virtualization:

• Windows subsystem for Android
• Windows subsystem for Linux
• Windows sandbox
• Virtualization-based security

Windows in the cloud

Parallels Desktop isn’t the only way to run Windows 11 on a Mac. The alternative that Microsoft likes to suggest is Windows Cloud PC, a version of Windows that runs entirely in the cloud and does not require local installation on a device.