You can do it with cloud VM's , but the problem is the startup time for a windows VM. The best i know of is ~400 seconds[1]. On the other hand, desktone(acquir

You can do it with cloud VM's , but the problem is the startup time for a windows VM. The best i know of is ~400 seconds[1]. On the other hand, desktone(acquired by VMware) claims it can boot in 60 seconds[2], which might work for this use case. [1]http://www.slideshare.net/mingtemp/a-performance-study-on-the-vm-startup-time-in-the-cloud http://www.slideshare.net/mingtemp/a-performance-study-on-th... [2]https://twitter.com/Desktone/status/312990615229050880 https://twitter.com/Desktone/status/312990615229050880