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However I did not pay for a Windows 11 license. If at some point Microsoft actually invalidates activations on M1s, there is at least some recourse for a refund in the agreement terms.

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Microsoft does state in the license agreement that activation does not qualify as being properly licensed, but activation does at least solve the feedback and Windows Update issues as you can take back what control Microsoft will give you.

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I also think that paying Microsoft for a license key is money to the wind but its your money not mine. Microsoft would have to answer why they are allowing this 'abuse' to occur on this scale? I guess Microsoft REALLY WANTS THAT SWEET SWEET FEEDBACK! If this is true, it is really 100,000 users that are USING Windows on ARM on the M1 and this represents serious financial damage to Microsoft and its Qualcomm partners as some number of these people may have bought the Microsoft and its partners supported hardware. (They tell you to ignore that error in the Parallels forums.) Parallels at one point claimed to have 100,000 users testing Windows on ARM. People have confirmed that PC Health Check in Windows ARM flags the M1 as not supported as well. Microsoft's behavior is somewhat curious here in that with the telemetry they have to know the image is running on M1. You do not have working version of Windows on ARM in my view rather you have a toy. So yes Windows ARM works in Parallels for now, but who knows where Microsoft will take it in the future.

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Indeed Microsoft decided to pull x86 emulation for the Windows 10 ARM Insider image and that forced people to Windows 11 ARM Insider.

Microsoft can then add or remove features or end the preview at will. In practice what this means is that you potentially share any data you place on the Insider image and/or any usage you perform with Microsoft. In turn the Insider agreement does not place any real conditions on what you can do other than that you have to allow all telemetry to Microsoft that Microsoft wants, and then Automatic Updates cannot be turned off. The end user agreement for the Insider Program states that it supersedes any other Microsoft license agreement. Parallels steers you to the Windows Insider program and then loads the Windows Insider Program ARM image. I will take a somewhat contrary view here, but its not really good for the user either. VMware has stated that when Microsoft allows Windows to be run on Apple Silicon, then they'll work to support it. VMware has a history of not supporting configurations that would encourage the circumvention of other vendors' licensing agreements. Given that so much of VMware's business is for the virtualization of Microsoft product in their enterprise client base, it's understandable that they take this position as they have more to lose by incurring Microsoft's wrath. This also means that they won't officially support Windows for ARM on Apple Silicon for the same reasons. They came to the conclusion that those agreements would not allow development of VMware Tools for Windows for ARM on Apple Silicon in a properly licensed manner. Because they're so small, Microsoft is not enforcing their own licensing and support statements for Windows for ARM on Apple Silicon.Īs a company that has a large installed base of enterprise clients, VMware had their lawyers look over all of the applicable licensing agreements.Most of their business is Windows on the Mac.Look at the Insider Preview agreement and they clearly state they are to be run on systems that are already licensed for Windows.

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They ignored Microsoft's licensing to install software and tools that that enabled them to build their tool set.Nice that they have so much regard for their users. They have publicly stated that you are the one responsible for it. They're telling you that license compliance isn't their problem.Parallels is doing it (again IMO) because: VMware being a solid company is IMO the exact reason why they don't provide support for Windows for ARM on Apple Silicon.