While it's doubtful whether this will be of any long-term interest, there's something about the "unnatural technical prowess" that fascinates.
Whether or not you're a fan of Apple products, it's hard to miss out on the Apple brand's ability to impose its style and distinguish itself in most tech sectors. In fact, whether we're talking about Mac computers, iPhones or iPads, the operating system - macOS or iOS - always figures prominently among the assets put forward by users, so the "little feat" relayed by the Windows Latest site has all the makings of an overnight feat, but we couldn't help but echo it.
Indeed, this "little exploit" is part of a wider trend aimed at attempting to install Windows 11 on the most surprising devices. In this case, it was NTDev - the team behind Tiny11, the version of Windows 11 that removes many non-essential features from Microsoft's system to make it as lightweight as possible - who decided to run the Arm64 version of Tiny11 on an iPad Air M2. To achieve this, NTDev launched the installation of its Tiny11 version in the UTM application using Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation, which resulted in a significant increase in performance and, ultimately, more than satisfactory operation of Microsoft's OS.
It was precisely the dual use of UTM and JIT that complicated matters: for security reasons, Apple restricts the use of JIT on applications distributed via the App Store, and the UTM available there is therefore not the fastest. NTDev therefore turned to the full version of UTM, not the one available on the App Store, and that's what we like about this kind of "prodigy": having to rack your brains a little to carry out an installation that's not self-evident. What's more, beyond this "little feat", using Windows 11 on an iPad Air M2 may have a definite impact on the machine's autonomy, as some of its functions may not be operational... but let's face it, Windows 11 can run satisfactorily on an iPad!
