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Can you link to the public statement? Would greatly appreciate that, thanks!


Craig Federighi:

> As for Windows running natively on the machine, "that's really up to Microsoft," he said. "We have the core technologies for them to do that, to run their ARM version of Windows, which in turn of course supports x86 user mode applications. But that's a decision Microsoft has to make, to bring to license that technology for users to run on these Macs. But the Macs are certainly very capable of it."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/we-are-giddy-intervi...


It's a pretty disingenuous way to blame Microsoft. Afterall, there are two ways that Windows 10 on Mac M1 could have occurred: Microsoft could relax the licensing so that end users could buy/install Windows 10 onto the Mac M1, or Apple could approach Microsoft like any other OEMs and license/preinstall Windows 10.

We know the latter isn't going happen.


I don’t see what’s disingenuous about it? Apple are basically saying that they haven’t put in any technical barriers to stop Microsoft from porting Windows to the M1, and that Microsoft are free to do so if they want.


Thanks!


The public statement is in the software by allowing to boot even non signed OSs from an external disk. https://techsviewer.com/how-to-allow-m1-and-t2-mac-to-use-an...




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