If you are new to CrossOver, it is a platform based on the Open Source Wine project that can run the Windows environment on macOS and Linux. It follows yesterday's news that CrossOver 20 is now compatible with Mac M1.ĬodeWeavers announced that CrossOver 20 now works on Apple Silicon Macs, which means newer Mac M1s can run Windows software directly on macOS. Parallels is also amazed by the news from Microsoft regarding the addition of support for 圆4 applications in Windows on ARM. We switched Parallels Desktop to the universal binary and optimized its virtualization code and the version we can't wait to try on these new MacBook Air, Mac mini and MacBook Pro 13 ″ looks very promising. Since WWDC, our new version of Parallels Desktop that runs on Mac with the Apple M1 chip has made tremendous progress. When Apple Silicon Mac was first announced at the WWDC keynote on June 22 this year, Apple demonstrated a prototype Parallels Desktop for Mac running a Linux virtual machine flawlessly on Apple Silicon. Note that currently available Parallels Desktop versions cannot run virtual machines on Macs with the Apple M1 chip.īut the company went further and confirmed that an M1 version is on the way.Ī new version of Parallels Desktop for Mac that can run on Mac with the Apple M1 chip is already in development. There was a hint in the form of a one-sentence note in a press release about the update to 16.1.1 (our emphasis).

Corel has confirmed that the company is using Mac Parallels M1 support by announcing an update with full Big Sur support on Intel Macs.

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