Simon Willison on Nostr: I have a Mac. If I want to test something on the kind of Windows machine that ...
I have a Mac. If I want to test something on the kind of Windows machine that developers who use Windows would use (so I guess Windows 11 and not Windows Server?) what are my best options for doing that? Any good online providers where I can spend a few dollars on the ability to remote-desktop into a Windows machine?
I tried using Azure for this earlier and got to the bit with this checkbox and noped right out of there:
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