“It’s so easy just to fire up what you need, decide that time is short and you’ll deal with it next time”.

REAL WORLD COMPUTING Jon is the MD of an IT consultancy that specialises in testing and deploying kit @jonhoneyball Okay, I confess: just this morning, I moved my final Windows 7 installation to Windows 10. I originally installed it many years ago into a Windows 7 VM, and every year or so I call up our alarm system company to get a download of the latest version of the software, to which I upgrade. Parallels persuades Microsoft to allow the Parallels M1 customer to in-app purchase a licence and download to a pre-built Windows 10 on ARM virtual machine, complete with Win64 Intel emulator. This neatly sidesteps the need to use Rosetta 2, the Apple tech that allows 64-bit Intel macOS apps to run on M1, and which Apple has explicitly said isn't for use outside of its own ecosystem. [Extracted from the article]