Future of Parallels on M5?

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop on a Mac with Apple silicon' started by PatJDixon, May 5, 2026 at 6:40 PM.

  1. PatJDixon

    PatJDixon Bit poster

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    I have Apple M5 Max with Parallels Version 26.3.2. I know that the VMs for Win7 and Win10 on my old MacBook Intel don't work on M5. I have a Win11 VM on my M5 but I have a bunch of applications that are not compatible with Win11. I find it hard to justify paying for Parallels if I only have Win11 available. Is there any possibility I will see a Win10 image I can use on my M5, or a Win7, in the future?
     
    PatJDixon, May 5, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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  2. Don Sullivan

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    Just my perspective but Windows 11 is the only generation of Windows that Microsoft will license for use in a ARM based Virtual machine environment. Since both of Win7 and Win10 are out of support I can't see why the Parallels team would invest any time or money to try and make it work on out of support OS versions. Not
     
    Don Sullivan, May 6, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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