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by pjmlp 2656 days ago
No, it costs 100 euros to get a proper Windows license.
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mdorazio 2655 days ago
No, you don't need a Windows license to develop for Windows. That's the whole point here. You can code and compile binaries for Windows, Linux, Android, etc. from many IDEs and virtually any platform under the sun. You can code and compile binaries for Apple products from exactly one IDE and exactly one platform: Apple's.
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pjmlp 2654 days ago
Of course you need Windows to develop Win32 and now UWP apps.

If you mean cross compiling from other OSes into Windows, good luck creating anything beyond CLI apps based on POSIX.

Ah but there is Wine! Not really, there are tons of Windows features that it doesn't support, and probably never will.

And if you mean Web apps, then I also develop Webapps for Mac without having one around.

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