Parallels Desktop is updated to version 17.1 and now supports Windows 11 and macOS Monterey

VMware has released a new version of the popular Parallels Desktop program. This is version 17.1, an update that makes the well-known application compatible with Apple's new operating system, macOs Monterey and can be used Windows 11.

A few hours ago Apple presented its new computers with its own processors, so this news may be of interest to all those who plan to get a computer with an M1 or M1 Pro and M1 Max processor andwant to use Windows 11 on their computer

Compatible with macOS Monterey and Windows 11

Through a communication on the company blog, they have announced that Parallels Desktop Update 17.1 makes it fully compatible with macOS Montereyas a host operating system and incidentally improves the user experience when running macOS Monterey in a virtual machine on Apple M1 Mac.

Parallels Desktop update to version 17.1 also includes improved Windows 11 virtual machine support and stability with the introduction of Virtual Trusted Platform Modules (vTPM) by default for all future and past Windows 11 virtual machines.

Remember that since version 16.5 of Parallels Desktop (Standard Edition, Pro Edition and Business Edition), the platform is compatible with Apple's new M1 processorsand also with those already known from Intel.

Users of all editions of Parallels Desktop 17.1 will be able to run Windows 11 with the use of an added vTPM by default due to that meet the minimum requirements for Windows 11.

In addition, with this release you can install Parallels Tools in a macOS Monterey virtual machine on a Mac with Apple M1 and use the built-in Copy and Paste feature between the VM and the main macOS. In addition, the virtual machine's default disk size is increased from 32 GB to 64 GB

The new update also comes to improve the performance of some games, in the case of World of Warcraft, Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition, Tomb Raider 3, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, World of Tanks or Balsa.

Remember that with version 16.5, Parallels was already able to natively emulate the ARM Insider Preview version of Windows 10, so like any Linux distribution based on the ARM architecture.Now comes support for Windows 11 making it harder for Microsoft to live up to its word.

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