Microsoft releases October 2016 edition Windows developer evaluation virtual machines

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Published on October 28, 2016

published on October 28, 2016

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Microsoft today released the October 2016 edition of evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (VM) on Windows Dev Center. Start coding sooner with a virtual machine prepped for Windows 10 development. It has the latest versions of Windows, the developer tools, SDKs, and samples ready to go. The VMs come in Hyper-V, Parallels, VirtualBox and VMWare editions and they will expire on 01/17/17.

These installs contain:

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 2.9.5)
Windows Bridge for iOS (0.2.160927)
Windows UWP samples (October 2016 Update)
Windows Bridge for iOS samples
Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

Microsoft also offers non-evaluation version, but you’ll need a Windows 10 Pro key to activate it. Microsoft also allows you to spin up these virtual machines in Azurewith the Windows Developer tooling installed.

More about the topics: microsoft, October 2016, Virtual Machines, Windows 10 Developer Machines, Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation

Pradeep Viswav

Software and Services Expert

Pradeep is a Computer Science and Engineering Graduate. He was also a Microsoft Student Partner. He is currently working in a leading IT company.

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