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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Apple’s new ARM-based Macs won’t support Windows through Boot Camp

The Verge

Apple will start switching its Macs to its own ARM-based processors later this year, but you won’t be able to run Windows in Boot Camp mode on them. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn’t made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install.

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With Windows 365, Microsoft realizes its vision for Cloud PCs, streaming its OS to any device

GeekWire

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the company’s Inspire virtual partner conference. Microsoft will release Windows as a paid cloud service , promising to stream the operating system to any device in an attempt to create what the tech giant describes as a new category of computing called the Cloud PC.

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Parallels — the easiest way to run Windows on any Mac

Computerworld Vertical IT

If you work in a multi-platform environment and need a solution that lets you run a licensed version of Windows on your M1 Mac, the newly updated Parallels Desktop 18 has you covered. Running Windows on a Mac the easy way. To read this article in full, please click here

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How Google is bringing Windows apps to Chromebooks

The Verge

Chrome OS will run Android and Windows apps side by side Google revealed earlier this year that it’s planning to support Windows applications on Chromebooks thanks to a partnership with Parallels. In an exclusive interview with The Verge , Google is now detailing how and why Windows apps are arriving on Chrome OS.

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Microsoft updates Office apps to run natively on Macs running Apple’s homegrown M1 chips

GeekWire

The practice dates back to the mid-1980s, when Microsoft released Word and Excel for Mac, and it has endured even as the companies have competed aggressively on other fronts. The big unanswered question now is whether Microsoft will change its Windows licensing terms to let the Arm-based version of Windows 10 run natively on M1 Macs.

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CES 2022 will introduce HDMI 2.1a, another confusing new spec

The Verge

Other use cases could be for when there’s a mix of content types, like for streamers (who could have an HDR game playing alongside a window of black and white text), displaying each area of content. As TFTCentral explains , according to the HDMI Licensing Administrator, now that HDMI 2.1 exists, there is no HDMI 2.0 standard.

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