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Windows Server 2025 arm64
Will there be an official release of Windows Server 2025 arm64? If so when?
The last Canary Cannel release worked fine on a M1 (or higher) Apple computer with the use of Parallels.
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This seems like a missed opportunity from Microsoft, with how energy efficient arm platforms are in general I would think there is a huge opportunity for more energy efficient smb/data center compute with an officially supported arm64 windows server. Mac use and the current/upcoming wave of arm powered surface devices would be other user communities that i could see taking advantage of this. - Surface ultra running AI workloads and windows server vms (or host!) for dev/test purposes.
- Artem Pronichkin
Microsoft
Hello, and thank you for your interest to Windows Server.
Unfortunately, Windows Server 2025 is not available for ARM64, and there are currently no plans for that. If you are interested in running Windows on ARM64, then Windows 11 is the best option.
May I ask you why you are interested in running Windows Server on ARM64?
I am looking for “the best of both worlds“: running the OS’s I need on a single hardware platform. I only need some Windows Server 2025. “Load” is not an issue. Neither is storage capacity.
I use a Macstudio (M1) with Thunderbolt and USB ports to add storage and network connections (Parallels software).
The system has four network connections: two for host Macintosh and two for the Windows server. And four extra SSDs.
The arm64 version uses only a fraction of the power the Supermicro dual Xeon system it replaces. Yes, the systems are not comparable!
But enough for my usage.
The test some months ago was successful enough for my demands. So running a Windows Server 2025 arm64, in the Parallels virtual environment, saves me buying new Server hardware.
So I would gladly buy a Windows Server 2025 license, if it runs a I described
Fulco
For those testing Windows Server 2025 or developing for it who use a Mac, it would be helpful to have a build that works natively, rather than depending on an AMD64 system.
