Microsoft has finally released official Windows 11 ISO media for PCs with an Arm64 processor ... Anything older, like the Snapdragon 8cx Gen3-based Microsoft SQ3 found in the Surface Pro 9 will require drivers to be integrated into the ISO image first ...

The ISO lets you install Windows 11 24H2 in a virtual machine or directly on an Arm-based system, though your PC's age will determine how smoothly it goes.

For some PC buyers, doing a clean install of Windows right out of the box is part of the setup ritual. But for Arm-based PCs, including the Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X Plus and Elite chips in them,

Microsoft has tried a few times to make Windows work on the Arm architecture, and it might finally be onto something with the latest incarnation. Windows 11 Arm machines are proliferating, and they're not terrible.

Good news for supporting Windows on Arm devices and adding new ones Microsoft is making ISO images of Windows 11 on Arm available at last, years after the hardware architecture made its debut.… The ISO is for the current release,

When power users get a new PC, sometimes they like to start fresh — so they pull the pro gamer move of re-installing Windows with a fresh ISO image direct from Microsoft that has no pack-in bloatware and no unnecessarily elaborate “driver management programs” from the manufacturer.

Almost six months after PC makers delivered the first Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft made Windows 11 on Arm available for download.