Microsoft releases August 2016 edition of evaluation Windows developer virtual machines

[Batu69]

In an effort to persuade developers to build apps for its Universal Windows Platform, Microsoft has released the August 2016 edition of the evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (VM). The company is now allowing developers to download the latest version on their Macs or Windows devices to try out the Windows developer environment without wasting time on setting up devices for test usage.

 

 

The installations of these virtual machines allow developers access to the latest version of various development tools including the Windows Bridge for iOS (Project Islandwood), Visual Studio Community Update 3, and Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. The full list includes:

• Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation, Version 1607
• Visual Studio 2015 Community Update 3 (Build 14.0.25425.01)
• Windows developer SDK and tools (Build 14393)
• Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET (Build 2.9.1)
• Windows Bridge for iOS (Build 00.1.160728)
• Windows UWP samples (Build 3.0.0)
• Windows Bridge for iOS samples
• Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

Microsoft has also noted that the download size for the virtual machines is 20GB, and that they come in a variety of flavors including Hyper-V, Parallels, VirtualBox, and VMWare. The company has cautioned that the VM expires on October 31, 2016, and that its terms of use can be viewed here. You can download virtual machine build 201608 from the Windows Dev Center. Source: Microsoft

 

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[Batu69]

Please take a moment and read this.

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when thanking another member or showing your appreciation in any other way. This also means it is no longer allowed to post a lot of generic "Thanks for the update" posts or anything of the like.

 

And don't forget read this too.

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Like on most online forums the use of the 'Like / Thanks' button is preferred over simply posting 'Thanks' or something similar. Making an excessive amount of posts which add little to nothing to a topic might result in a post count reduction.

 

Thanks post removed.

[Holmes]

I hope this beats windows xp mode.  I have used windows xp mode and its ok I wouldnt mind testing this out myself.

[straycat19]

48 minutes ago, Holmes said:

I hope this beats windows xp mode.  I have used windows xp mode and its ok I wouldnt mind testing this out myself.

 

I don't see the correlation.  Windows XP mode was an addition to Windows 7 to run programs in that were not compatible with Windows 7 and had nothing to do with development.  This is definitely not something that you would compare to XP mode.

[Holmes]

Windows xp mode is accessed through windows virtual pc which is a virtual machine no need to say anything else as in that was a dumb statement very dumb statement I expected you to be better then that stray.  I got a excerpt from a different website:

 

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It is the runtime engine for Windows XP Mode to provide a virtual Windows environment for Windows 7.

 

 

Thats from microsofts technet website.