Provision Windows virtual machines Remove virtual machines (and associated resources) Create Azure Dev-Test Labs Although these only scratch the surface of the wealth of automation opportunities ...

Software can take inordinate amounts of time to develop and test. With the cloud, achieving hyper-agile software development is feasible with these key principles for building a next-gen dev/test lab.

Dev Box is a follow-up to Microsoft’s Azure DevTest Labs, a service introduced in 2016 for creating templatized virtual machines for development and testing use cases.

Microsoft is finally allowing users to run Windows 7 and 8 in the cloud, but for development and test purposes only.