Well, that's good news! Is it safe to assume that once there is a final release of Windows 10 for ARM, it will be possible to run DPI 15 on an M1 machine without any difficulty? Or are there still potential problems ahead?

Mav, if you are still following this thread, you pointed out earlier that Nuance had no plans to perform tests with Windows on ARM, and wasn't interested in supporting the platform. What do you think that means for the future of this combination (Parallels/Windows/DPI on an M1 machine)? Even if we can make this work for now, is it only a matter of time before things run aground?

Edit: Scott Baker, who writes about Dragon, also had this gloomy thought about the long-term prospects:

"The Windows on ARM OS is still just a developer time-limited beta. There’s no way to buy a licence and there may never be."

DPI 16/Windows 10/Parallels Desktop 18 on a MacBook Pro

Personally, I don't expect unforeseen problems related to Windows on ARM to suddenly popup now that Dragon is working on current prerelease builds.

The heavy lifting is being performed by the x86 and x64 emulation anyway and this is neither specific for Dragon nor the reason why it didn't work out of the box with earlier prereleases.

The only reason why Dragon would not run correctly (i.e. show the "Failed to launch 64bit server" message) under earlier previews was that during installation Dragon's setup wouldn't recognize the target system as 64bit due to a missing installer property.

Obviously Microsoft has added this property now so the system will look like a regular Windows 10 machine to Dragon's setup.

Cheers,

mav