Installing Windows on an iPad with iPadOS

I bought a iPad 11” with an OS operating system. How do I get windows on the iPad?


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Posted on Sep 1, 2025 12:05 PM

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Posted on Sep 1, 2025 12:23 PM

you can't, while microsoft has a version of windows for arm cpus (like the ipads cpu) then it's optimised for the qualcomm cpus and do not have any sort of drivers for the apple hardware, and on top of that then the ipad do not support one installing other operating systems than apples on it


you can remote desktop to a computer with windows though

Connect to Remote Desktop Services and remote PCs on iOS/iPadOS - Remote Desktop client | Microsoft Learn

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Sep 1, 2025 12:23 PM in response to BriteOne

you can't, while microsoft has a version of windows for arm cpus (like the ipads cpu) then it's optimised for the qualcomm cpus and do not have any sort of drivers for the apple hardware, and on top of that then the ipad do not support one installing other operating systems than apples on it


you can remote desktop to a computer with windows though

Connect to Remote Desktop Services and remote PCs on iOS/iPadOS - Remote Desktop client | Microsoft Learn

Installing Windows on an iPad with iPadOS

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