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 ...

Microsoft has released new Windows 11 virtual machines available for free evaluation. Version 2401 includes the latest cumulative updates for Windows 11 version 22H2 and various developer tools.

Disk images for Microsoft's Windows 11 Development Environment virtual machines have suddenly become unavailable. As of Oct. 23, all four variants of these virtual machines—Hyper-V, Parallels for Mac, ...

Another month—another update for the Windows 11 Development Environment, also known as free Windows 11 virtual machines. Version 2305, with the latest updates, is now available for download. Those ...

You can create Hyper-V VMs in Windows 11 using a built-in Windows app or a new developer-oriented tool. Both come with gotchas. Here’s how it all works. Though it may seem that virtual machines, a.k.a ...

It’s been a long time coming, but Microsoft has finally delivered on its promise of a complete set of developer tools for Windows on Arm, from hardware to software, with support for Arm-specific ...

In Vernor Vinge’s science fiction novel A Deepness in the Sky, one of the characters works as a software archaeologist, mining thousands of years of code and libraries to find the solutions to ...

Microsoft’s Connect developer conference kicked off Wednesday with some expected news: The next versions of the Visual Studio IDE have arrived on Windows and Mac. (Yep, you read that right.) After a ...