Microsoft, doing its best to facilitate its Edge and web platforms, is giving away free VMware and VirtualBox virtual machines. Developers can download — free of charge — VMs running: XP, Vista, Win 7 ...

Microsoft has made available a free Windows 11 Enterprise virtual machine for download. Aimed at developers, Microsoft says, "Start building Windows applications quickly by using a virtual machine ...

If you need a Windows 11-based virtual machine to experiment with software or just want to poke around Microsoft's latest creation from another platform, you may want to download the company's latest ...

We’ve shown you how to go about installing the new Windows 8 developer preview on a brand-new hard drive or a partition of your existing hard drive–that’s easy. However, most of you probably just want ...

Windows 10 is now available to download and install, and although many of us want to get Microsoft's latest and greatest operating system as soon as possible, it's also worth treating a new OS with ...

We list the best virtual machine software, to make it simple and easy to setup and run a new OS virtually on an existing PC or laptop. Virtualization has become an increasingly important part of ...

Install Windows 11 safely in a virtual machine with this step-by-step guide from ExtremeTech—ideal for testing software or managing files securely. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

Imagine this: You're using one Linux distribution and you want to quickly deploy a virtual machine of another Linux distribution for either testing purposes or to have a secondary operating system to ...

A programming language like Java is more than just a way to write programs; game and app developers use it too. However, it’s very common to experience Java crashes. If you are having trouble when ...