I'm happy to report that I don't have to work on Windows on a daily basis.
But for the few times I <i>have</i> to work on "legacy" WPF code I relied on [1],
which is "temporarily down" (since October '24).<p>Having used up my slmgr /rearm-s I am now confronted with the evaluation-has-expired hourly shutdowns.<p>Does anyone have a clue whether Microsoft is really having issues with providing a VM-image for their development environment or if they are just silently discontinuing this otherwise superb service?<p>tl;dr is [1] gone for good?<p>[1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/
<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-11-enterprise" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-...</a><p>While not 100% what you were used to downloaded, I think you should be able to use these ISO’s for you needs.<p>You’ll need to setup everything up from scratch, luckily it’s not too much. I’d suggest capturing the post configured state of the machine and save it so you can reuse as needed.
Some people with ambiguous morals use <a href="https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts">https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts</a><p>Microsoft knows about this but seems to ignore it. I'll leave you to your own conclusions.