Future of Parallels on M5?

[PatJDixon]

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?

 

[Don Sullivan]

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?

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