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 ==Testing using virtual machines==
-Microsoft provides several virtual machine (e.g. VirtualBox) disk images of MS Windows for 90 days of testing https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/. While primarily meant for testing the MS-Edge browser, the license (given on that page) for these images does not limit the use of these images to just MS-Edge. So it is perfectly possible to also test GNU Octave.
+Microsoft provides several virtual machine (e.g. VirtualBox) disk images of MS Windows for about one month of testing
+* https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines
+* https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms (primarily meant for testing the MS-Edge browser)
+The license (given on that page) for these images does not limit the use of these images. So it is perfectly possible to also test GNU Octave.
 The key idea is to create a shared folder inside the virtual machine to the mxe-octave build directory. It is advised to make it read-only.  Either install (or unpack) Octave into MS Windows 10, or create a shortcut to {{Path|octave.vbs}} in the {{Path|<mxe-octave build dir>/dist/octave}} subdirectory on the Linux side.