Explore Microsoft’s Free 90‑Day Windows Development Environment (WDE) VM
Microsoft’s latest Windows Development Environment (WDE) version 2309 offers a free 90‑day virtual machine packed with Visual Studio 2022, .NET, Azure, WSL 2, and Windows 11 Enterprise, requiring 70 GB storage and 8 GB RAM, and is available for download until December 19 2023.
Microsoft has released a new Windows Development Environment (WDE) update, version 2309.
WDE is a free, non‑activated virtual machine that can be used for 90 days, aimed at developers needing tools to create Windows applications. It includes Visual Studio 2022 Community with workloads for UWP, .NET Desktop, Azure, and the Windows App SDK for C#, as well as a pre‑installed WSL 2 with Ubuntu, Windows Terminal, and Developer Mode.
The VM also provides a 90‑day Windows 11 Enterprise license containing the same development tools.
Users can download and run WDE using VMware Workstation Player/Pro, VirtualBox, Parallels, or Hyper‑V. After 90 days the VM shows an activation reminder, but activation is not possible.
The WDE download is available until 19 December 2023; the recommended download page is the Microsoft developer site.
Note that the VM requires at least 70 GB of free disk space, 8 GB of RAM, and that the host computer must support virtualization with the feature enabled in optional components.
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