The M1 as seen from the other side of the fence (PCWORLD)

[dmccloud]

The licensing issue is easy for Microsoft to address. All they would need to do is change the existing license so that WoA is available to people other than system builders. I'm also not sure that the 32-bit thing would be an issue in a VM, because the VM should be able to handle the 32-bit operations and hand them off to MacOS as a 64-bit system call as needed.

 

[jdb8167]

The licensing issue is easy for Microsoft to address. All they would need to do is change the existing license so that WoA is available to people other than system builders. I'm also not sure that the 32-bit thing would be an issue in a VM, because the VM should be able to handle the 32-bit operations and hand them off to MacOS as a 64-bit system call as needed.

It doesn’t. There are multiple reports of 32-bit arm apps not working in Windows on Arm when running in a M1 VM. The M1 can’t run 32-bit Arm binaries.

Edit: clarification.