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Among the announcements made at Microsoft’s Build developer convention was a new service for organizations that need to offer virtualized, pre-configured progression desktops on demand. mandatory equipment and dependencies installed and ready to use (so to speak), as well as access to source code updates and new copies of all night releases.
Dev Box is based on Windows 365, a service that IT managers can use to provide preconfigured virtual PCs to users. Administrators can create photographs of operational formulas and offer hardware configurations with other amounts of CPU, storage, and RAM power as per specific wishes. of users (or workloads). Windows 365 virtual machines, adding but limited to Dev Box virtual machines, can be accessed from other Windows PCs or devices running macOS, iOS, Android, Linux, or ChromeOS.
Virtualized progression environments may be offering many benefits to developers and testers beyond the ability to access a pre-configured progression chart from anywhere. If you install software or perform a replacement that disrupts your progression environment, you can seamlessly return to a familiar running version Your administrator may be offering other environments for other programs to avoid software conflicts, or be offering multiple environments for other versions of your application so you can manage, test, and deliver multiple versions at once seamlessly.
“Microsoft Dev Box supports any IDE, SDK, or internal developer tool running on Windows,” writes Anthony Cangialosi, Microsoft product manager. , mobile devices, IoT and gaming. You can even create cross-platform programs on the Windows subsystem for Linux. “
Dev Box is available lately as a personal preview. If you want to check it when the preview is made public, you can sign up to receive more information here.
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