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Microsoft does. Unfortunately the VHDs are fairly big to download, and the ISOs are infrequently updated. For local development, I can install Windows in under
by jiggawatts 4y ago
Microsoft does. Unfortunately the VHDs are fairly big to download, and the ISOs are infrequently updated.
For local development, I can install Windows in under 2 minutes on a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD in a virtual machine from an ISO image. Patching it takes longer, about 5 minutes, but I generally do other things while that occurs in the background.
These days I find the most convenient method to get the "latest" fully-patched version of Windows in a VM is to spin one up in a public cloud. Both Azure and AWS have sufficient free tiers to make this perfectly viable for most developers doing testing or whatever. I just tested Azure's deployment time, and it's about 2 minutes to create an up-to-date VM from scratch.