Perfect for locked-down corporate environments where you cannot run .exe installers.
While Microsoft offers standard User and System installers, the .zip (for Windows) or .tar.gz (for Linux) packages provide specific advantages:
Right-click the downloaded file and select Extract All... to a folder of your choice (e.g., C:\Tools\AzureDataStudio ).
You can keep Azure Data Studio on a USB drive and use it across different machines with your settings intact.
Select the azuredatastudio-windows-1.52.0.zip (or the ARM64 version if applicable).
As of early 2026, Azure Data Studio has reached its final stable release (Version 1.52.0). You can download the archived zip files from official repositories like GitHub Releases or SourceForge . For Windows