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With that said, not everyone knows what makes the two most popular OSes secure out of the box. Insider exclusive: Download a PDF version of this article.

You won’t gain many friends by claiming both are secure. In reality, both OSes are adequately secure when operated with their default security settings along with their vendor’s best practice recommendations, but after decades of intense competition for passionate consumers, the subject borders on a technical religious war. That suggests Microsoft has figured out it can turn a buck with this, so might as well make it official.One of the quickest ways to troll IT security professionals is to proclaim that either Microsoft Windows computers or Apple Macs have better security.

Microsoft hasn't said why it decided to start supporting Windows-on-Arm VMs on Apple silicon, but Parallels' statement in support of the move offers a hint in the form of advice that Microsoft's enterprise licenses cover use of the OS in a VM. VMware's product line manager for desktop hypervisors, Michael Roy, also said his team plans to 'leapfrog the competition' with Microsoft's help. Virtzilla had previously enabled running Windows 11 for Arm in the Fusion desktop hypervisor it offers for Macs and ported into a native version for Apple's silicon. VMware has also weighed in with news that it will 'move full-speed ahead in offering world-class support for Windows on Mac computers with Apple silicon.'

Parallels: Purveyors of decent virtualization software.

VMware refreshes desktop hypervisors, adds Apple Silicon support.

We take Asahi Linux alpha for a spin on an M1 Mac Mini.Parallels increases prices with Desktop version 18.

Parallels has welcomed the news and suggested it will be appreciated by folks like 'a field engineer that prefers a Mac access a Windows-based application such as Matlab or VTScada.' That warning hasn't curbed the enthusiasm of desktop hypervisor vendors.

Windows 10 professional apple virtualization