[BugsJustFindMe]

In what universe is people who want to build more Microsoft Windows executables for other users of Microsoft Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio not part of Microsoft's target market? I have an operating system on my computer already. I don't want two.

[Joeri]

How will you test those apps? By installing a second OS no doubt. Why not run visual studio inside that, perhaps with vmware or parallels?

I guess I don't understand what sort of developer workflow you can have building windows apps and not actually running windows, even if it's just in a vm.

[BugsJustFindMe]

I'll refer you to my other answer to this same question.

[sp332]

Building in a VM is pretty slow.

[imron]

I do a ton of Windows dev in a VM. It's not that bad.

[mdavid626]

Yeah, I totally agree with you.