Run Windows 11 Pro on your Mac through Parallels or Boot Camp for 10

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. There's a straightforward way to run a full Windows 11 installation on a Mac Windows 11 Pro installs inside Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, or a Boot Camp partition just as it would on a physical PC, and a lifetime license is on sale for $9.97 (reg. Running Windows 11 Pro instead of Home matters even in a virtual machine because Pro includes the security and business features that many work and school accounts require. A Windows partition used for a specific app, such as a finance tool or an older piece of software, still benefits from that extra layer of security without requiring a second physical machine. What's included with the Windows 11 Pro license BitLocker locks down the drive with full-disk encryption, whether the install is virtual or physical.