Craft 3 - Recommended development environment for Windows?
First of all, I am also a Mac user. But these should be available for Windows too.

Start reading about virtualization. So, you won't install the web server directly on your machine but on a virtual box installed on your machine.

A good starting point could be vagrant (which is becoming a bit antiquated more and more, but which is still worth a try since it's working like a charm).
What's getting more and more into many developers' focus is docker. Many of my customers have been introducing it in their developer teams the last years.

Hope that helps. It's a lot to read though…