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We currently package our virtual machines for four different virtualization software options: VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, and Parallels.

Windows 10 Enterprise - 20 GB download

This VM will expire on 5/16/21.

VMWare   Hyper-V   VirtualBox   Parallels

This evaluation virtual machine includes:

  • Windows 10, version 2004 (10.0.19041.0)

  • Windows 10 SDK, version 2004 (10.0.19041.0)

  • Visual Studio 2019 (latest as of 2/15/21) with the UWP, .NET desktop, and Azure workflows enabled and also includes the Windows Template Studio extension

  • Visual Studio Code (latest as of 2/15/21)

  • Windows Subsystem for Linux enabled with Ubuntu installed

  • Developer mode enabled

    File hashes

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    WinDev2102Eval.Parallels.zip 19802994386 8295B20DF754EC2F5A3788CDCFF971A25A260F6CC476C4C1B8B567E7645E2B84
    WinDev2102Eval.VirtualBox.zip 19964017894 2725E99F67819DB0ED960405C7B360F33D8F0D88A057C371BCCB514DB5144009
    WinDev2102Eval.VMware.zip 21143650101 F3D493C1F6909040876ABF9478C3ED0E8D73FDEFC16B4F74F8219C268F922026

The Microsoft Software License Terms for the Windows 10 VMs supersede any conflicting Windows license terms included in the VMs.