It seems you missed the part he mentions there is already a Windows-compatible fork that's better than Microsoft's patch (equally unsuitable for production use, less changes to the original codebase).

So, you can already run Redis on Windows, if you are so inclined. I too don't like using VMs to develop, and that's why I use Linux for my work environment, but, if you want to have a production-grade OS and be able to run Windows software, VMs are the only way.