[username42]

VirtualBox with a shared directory is also a way to have all the niceties of unix without installing MinGW or Cygwin.

[nikatwork]

Unless your asshole infra team configure the SOE to actively bork vbox installs because everything is a "security risk". (But are still running EOL WinXP).

[ygra]

Unless you actually have to work on that shared directory, at which point the abysmal performance results it in being nigh-useless.

[yangyang]

You can't invoke binaries on the host that way, though.