Windows 10: Just released Windows developer virtual machines September 2016 build

Source: Just released September 2016 build | Building Apps for Windows

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Use My Win10 For Virtual Machine?

Microsoft has released its
October 2016 update of virtual machines for developers. These installs contain:

• Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation, Version 1607
• Visual Studio 2015 Community Update 3 (Build 14.0.25425.01)
• Windows developer SDK and tools (Build 14393)
• Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET (Build 2.9.5)
• Windows Bridge for iOS (0.2.160927)
• Windows UWP samples (October 2016 Update)
• Windows Bridge for iOS samples
• Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

As with previous releases, you can run these VMs in Hyper-V, Parallels, VirtualBox, or VMWare. The evaluation versions expire in 90 days; fully licensed packages are also available but require a Windows 10 Pro key.

Source:

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Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems (KB3194798) - Error 0x80073701 will not update/install

The latest Windows 10 version is 1607. For each version you will see a series of OS Builds until it is upgraded to the next version. For version 1607 we have so far seen

14393.0 released August 3, 2016 the Anniversary update

14393.?? ad hoc releases to overcome initial problems

14393.187 released September 13, 2016

14393.222 released September 29, 2016

14393.321 released October 11, 2016

14393.351 released October 27, 2016

14393.447 released November 9, 2016

14393.479 released December 9, 2016

Builds for Mobile versions of Windows have their own numbers and are not listed above.

Select the keyboard shortcut Win+S and type
About your PC. Click the Best Match at the top of the dropdown menu to see your current
OS Build.

 

Just for information since Download a Windows 10 virtual machine - Windows app development does not give any:

It's a 19.2 GB download for the Hyper-V Windows 10 Professional (licensed) edition, and the server is not brilliantly fast - about an hour on my 50-60 Mbps broadband at 6 AM in the UK.

It's a zip file called Win10Sysprep_1609_HyperV.zip, and the WinDev1609Sys.vhd is about 43 GB in size.

The pre-determined expiry date is a bit mean for the evaluation version - 31 October 2016, just a month.

 

blog is self conflicted...

how do they call it licensed edition when it still requires you to buy a windows 10 key?

without the key, the licensed edition will expire as well....

 

Licensed, as opposed to Evaluation time-based trial.

It does not state Free Giveaway, although no Windows 10 that I know of, that has not been activated, has expired yet - they just state on the desktop that the installation is not activated and ask you to activate.​

Also, there is no requirement to buy a new license if you already have one.

 

... So, this to get some iOS developers on board then?... I doubt many have not already got a full MS dev machine anyway... checking out the opposition's apps is a given.

 

The WinDev1609Sys.vhd can be natively booted realistically in a partition of 160GB or greater. If the free space in the drive where the VHD is located is too small it bluescreens with an error stating that there is not enough space.

On completing sysprep specialization pass (Language, Keyboard, Locale, user details, network, express/custom setup etc.), and a couple of reboots it activated with the machine's digital entitlement.

The VHD size on disk expanded to 133GB.

Immediately downloaded Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems (KB3194496), and Nvidia drivers, reporting the driver installation as failed, but It looks as if it is running Nvidia drivers without problems.

 

I cant get the vmware image to work correctly .
1. vmware has to convert it because of the ovf file. so it time consuming
2. vmware says its not compatible for 3d acceleration.
3. when booting up it freezes at the windows 10 settings screen

retrying

and trying virtualbox vm

dont want to use hyper-v because then I cant use my other apps that use the cpu ext.

 

In VirtualBox, You just need to go to File-->Import Appliance , then select the ovf file image and click Next.
It will create everything you need from the appliance file and you can start the VM when complete (it took like an hour on my machine to import)

 

As much as i appreciate MS providing these images, they are basically worthless unless you are overclocking the crap out of your machine. Win 10 is notably slower than 8.1 on real hardware, but on a VM, it's pure torture - delays up to a minute are common (that's set to dual CPU 3GB memory) for opening some windows.
Edge browser is probably the worst browser I've ever seen - incredibly slow, incredibly buggy (often won't close at all).
To make matters worse, it refused to take my Windows 10 Pro product key! Fail.