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		massysett on Feb 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft to support Windows 11 on M1 and M2 Macs ... My dentist has some proprietary software to administer her practice (I don't think it does everything - maybe keeps X ray images, and some other stuff.) It's Windows only and she runs it in a Windows XP virtual machine of some kind. But all the computers in the office are Macs. She upgraded to the M1 iMacs but the old Windows software doesn't work in there. So she kept an old Intel Mac in a corner somewhere to run the software. If she could run that in Arm Windows in a window on a Mac I'm sure she would.

fragmede on Feb 17, 2023 | [–]

She's a dentist, not an IT professional. Windows apps run on Apple Silicon, even if she does not know how.

cududa on Feb 17, 2023 | | [–]

What in the world are you talking about

robertoandred on Feb 17, 2023 | [–]

Emulating Windows XP on Apple silicon Macs should be plenty fast for that purpose.

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