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Comment by queenkjuul

3 months ago

Apple Silicon cannot boot Windows ARM and Apple is dropping boot camp support alongside x86 support in the near future.

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alwillis  3 months ago

> Apple Silicon cannot boot Windows ARM

That's totally up to Microsoft… they could done a licensing deal with Apple years ago to enable Windows ARM to run natively on Apple Silicon hardware.

  • AlexandrB  3 months ago

    Why does this need a licensing deal? Windows didn't need a licensing deal to run on commodity PC hardware back in the day.

    • alwillis  3 months ago

      Because computers don't boot the way they used to in the commodity BIOS era. The boot loader has to cryptographically check that it's valid operating system it's attempting to boot.

  • queenkjuul  3 months ago

    Well, Apple could follow industry standards, too. The argument was Apple approves alternate operating systems as evidenced by boot camp. That's demonstrably not true anymore.