<p>Anyone who would like to start writing apps or just would like to check out the latest version of Microsofts&#8217; latest operating system can now do it for free by downloading official Windows 10 22H2 virtual machines.</p>
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<p>Microsoft has updated its VMs that are pre-loaded with developer tools including Visual Studio 2022, WSL, and others.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s worth saying that these Windows 11 22H2 machines will not stay free. These VMs can be used at no cost until January 10, 2023. After that date, you&#8217;ll have to activate Windows just like any other Windows installation.</p>
<p>With that said, in two months&#8217; time, developers should have enough time to play with the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Windows 11 Enterprise SKU (Evaluation)</li>
<li>Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition with UWP, .NET Desktop, Azure, and Windows App SDK for C# workloads</li>
<li>Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 with Ubuntu pre-installed</li>
<li>Windows Terminal</li>
<li>Developer Mode</li>
</ul>
<p>Windows 11 virtual machines are available in four different variants for virtualization hosts including VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, and Parallels. There is a minimum requirement for at least 20GB of free disk space to deploy one of these VMs.</p>
<p>More information and links for download can be found on the <a href="https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official web page</a>.</p>