Microsoft Windows 10 For Mac Os X

* The Windows 10 April 2018 Update rolls out automatically via Windows Update. After the download completes we’ll notify you to pick the right time to finish the installation. After the download completes we’ll notify you to pick the right time to finish the installation.

Last Updated: October 26, 2018 Many Mac users are still unaware that you can install Windows 10 on Mac for free from Microsoft perfectly legally. Microsoft doesn’t actually require users to activate Windows 10 with a product key unless you want to customize the look of it. Although you can of course purchase a Windows 10 license (which costs $119.99 from Microsoft) the only advantage of activating it is that it allows you to customize the look for Windows 10 such as the desktop, lock screen, styling, removal of watermarks etc. For most Mac users that just want to install Windows only programs or games on macOS, this is not necessary and so you can enjoy Windows 10 for free. Here we show you how you can easily get Windows 10 on your Mac for free in little more than 10 minutes. The is to install it in a virtual machine.

Should you desire to format the drive as Mac OS X Extended (Journaled), you’re welcome to. Pny thumb drives. When copying that same folder from the flash drive to my hard drive the two were close—1 minute 36 seconds for the OS X Extended format and 1 minute and 40 seconds for the MS-DOS format.

A virtual machine allows you to run Windows and macOS at the same time so that you can switch between the two at any moment with just one click. By far the best virtual environment on Mac is which makes it extremely easy to install Windows on macOS.

The alternative to a virtual machine is to install Windows separately to macOS using Apple’s Boot Camp but this means that you can only boot your Mac in either macOS or Windows at one time – you can’t run them simultaneously. For the needs of most Mac users that want to run Windows only programs on Mac, using a virtual machine is by far your best option. The only reason you may want to use Boot Camp is if the Windows program or game you want to use requires ActiveX such as if you want to as ActiveX doesn’t work in a virtual machine.

Note that before you start, you should have at least 15GB of hard drive space free in order to install Parallels and Windows. However, we recommend having much more than this because that will only be enough to run Windows comfortably. If you want to install Windows only games and applications, you’ll need many more gigabytes of space. The good news is that if you’re running low on space, you can get an external drive for your Mac and install Windows on that although it’s generally better to install it on your Mac hard drive if possible.

Follow these instructions to install Windows 10 on Mac for free. • Download for Mac. Although there are other virtual machines are available, Parallels is by far the easiest way to install Windows 10 on Mac. Parallels has been around for many years and the installation process in the latest version of Parallels 13 is now so automated and refined then it even downloads and install Windows 10 for you. All you need to do is install Parallels itself.

You don’t even need to purchase it to try it – you can download a instead. You can also check out our if you want to learn more.

• Double click on the Parallels installer. Note that you can’t just drag it into your Applications folder – you need to run the installer for Parallels to install in macOS. You may see a warning that “Parallels is an application downloaded from the internet.