diff --git a/.win-build.yml b/.win-build.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..671d55fa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.win-build.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+environment:
+  global:
+    # SDK v7.0 MSVC Express 2008's SetEnv.cmd script will fail if the
+    # /E:ON and /V:ON options are not enabled in the batch script intepreter
+    # See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13751649/163740
+    CMD_IN_ENV: "cmd /E:ON /V:ON /C .\\appveyor\\run_with_env.cmd"
+
+  matrix:
+
+    # Python 2.7.10 is the latest version and is not pre-installed.
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python27.10"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "2.7.10"
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "32"
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python27.10-x64"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "2.7.10"
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "64"
+
+    # Pre-installed Python versions, which Appveyor may upgrade to
+    # a later point release.
+    # See: http://www.appveyor.com/docs/installed-software#python
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python27"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "2.7.x" # currently 2.7.9
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "32"
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python27-x64"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "2.7.x" # currently 2.7.9
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "64"
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python33"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "3.3.x" # currently 3.3.5
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "32"
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python33-x64"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "3.3.x" # currently 3.3.5
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "64"
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python34"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "3.4.x" # currently 3.4.3
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "32"
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python34-x64"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "3.4.x" # currently 3.4.3
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "64"
+
+    # Python versions not pre-installed
+
+    # Python 2.6.6 is the latest Python 2.6 with a Windows installer
+    # See: https://github.com/ogrisel/python-appveyor-demo/issues/10
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python266"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "2.6.6"
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "32"
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python266-x64"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "2.6.6"
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "64"
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python35"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "3.5.0"
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "32"
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python35-x64"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "3.5.0"
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "64"
+
+    # Major and minor releases (i.e x.0.0 and x.y.0) prior to 3.3.0 use
+    # a different naming scheme.
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python270"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "2.7.0"
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "32"
+
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python270-x64"
+      PYTHON_VERSION: "2.7.0"
+      PYTHON_ARCH: "64"
+
+install:
+  - ECHO "Filesystem root:"
+  - ps: "ls \"C:/\""
+
+  - ECHO "Installed SDKs:"
+  - ps: "ls \"C:/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows\""
+
+  # Install Python (from the official .msi of http://python.org) and pip when
+  # not already installed.
+  - ps: if (-not(Test-Path($env:PYTHON))) { & appveyor\install.ps1 }
+
+  # Prepend newly installed Python to the PATH of this build (this cannot be
+  # done from inside the powershell script as it would require to restart
+  # the parent CMD process).
+  - "SET PATH=%PYTHON%;%PYTHON%\\Scripts;%PATH%"
+
+  # Check that we have the expected version and architecture for Python
+  - "python --version"
+  - "python -c \"import struct; print(struct.calcsize('P') * 8)\""
+
+  # Upgrade to the latest version of pip to avoid it displaying warnings
+  # about it being out of date.
+  - "pip install --disable-pip-version-check --user --upgrade pip"
+
+  # Install the build dependencies of the project. If some dependencies contain
+  # compiled extensions and are not provided as pre-built wheel packages,
+  # pip will build them from source using the MSVC compiler matching the
+  # target Python version and architecture
+  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% pip install -r dev-requirements.txt"
+
+build_script:
+  # Build the compiled extension
+  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% python setup.py build"
+
+test_script:
+  # Run the project tests
+  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% python setup.py nosetests"
+
+after_test:
+  # If tests are successful, create binary packages for the project.
+  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% python setup.py bdist_wheel"
+  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% python setup.py bdist_wininst"
+  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% python setup.py bdist_msi"
+  - ps: "ls dist"
+
+artifacts:
+  # Archive the generated packages in the ci.appveyor.com build report.
+  - path: dist\*
+
+#on_success:
+#  - TODO: upload the content of dist/*.whl to a public wheelhouse
+#
+
diff --git a/build-Python27.bat b/build-Python27.bat
index f30b995b4..36694e58b 100644
--- a/build-Python27.bat
+++ b/build-Python27.bat
@@ -28,6 +28,18 @@ pip install --upgrade setuptools
 pip install cython fabric fabtools
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 python setup.py build_ext --inplace
+python setup.py install
+
+rem mkdir corpora
+rem cd corpora
+rem mkdir en
+rem cd en
+
+rem powershell -Command "(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://wordnetcode.princeton.edu/3.0/WordNet-3.0.tar.gz', 'WordNet-3.0.tar.gz')"
+
+rem set PYTHONPATH = %~dp0
+rem python bin\init_model.py en lang_data\ corpora\ spacy\en\data
+
 rem python setup.py test
 rem python setup.py install
 rem python tests\conftest.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test-Python27.bat b/test-Python27.bat
index 72c90e3b7..3131796d4 100644
--- a/test-Python27.bat
+++ b/test-Python27.bat
@@ -16,12 +16,16 @@ PATH = D:\Python27\;D:\Python27\Scripts;%PATH%
 
 :run
 
+python tests\test_basic_create.py
+
+rem py.test tests/ -x
+
 rem python -m spacy.en.download
 
 @echo Patience ...
-python -c "import spacy.en; nlp = spacy.en.English(); print([w.text for w in nlp(u'I would like to be a dog')])"
+rem python -c "import spacy.en; nlp = spacy.en.English(); print([w.text for w in nlp(u'I would like to be a dog')])"
 @echo Patience ...
-python examples\information_extraction.py
+rem python examples\information_extraction.py
 @echo Patience ...
-python examples\matcher_example.py
+rem python examples\matcher_example.py