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Microsoft Offering Free Windows 10 Development Environment VM for a Limited Time (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the free-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is providing a free virtual machine that comes preloaded with Windows 10 Enterprise, Visual Studio 2017, and various utilities in order to promote the development of Universal Windows Platform apps. Before you get too excited about a free version of Windows 10 Enterprise, this Virtual Machine will expire on January 15th 2018. When downloading the development environment, you can choose either a VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, or Parallels virtual machine depending on what virtual machine software you use. Each of these images are about 17-20GB when extracted from the downloaded archive and include almost everything you need to develop Universal Windows Platform apps.

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  1. First! by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 3, Funny

    First Hit is free!

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  2. Excited? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Before you get too excited about a free version of Windows 10 Enterprise, this Virtual Machine will expire on January 15th 2018.

    I will try to contain my excitement about this.

  3. Jesus Christ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    How offten do we have to say NOOOOO to your Free-as-in-Herpes-Windows-10??! You couldn't give it away as a full version, why would anyone want a timebombed version?!

    captcha: stuffs. yes, really, please to, ms...

  4. Also.. by Tailhook · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's a TRAP.

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