SWTBot tests inconsistent for Kepler in Windows Virtualized Environment

Hallo,
I am using SWTBot to test an Eclipse E4 RCP Application based on Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler).
My SWTBot tests are run as part of a Maven / Tycho Build.
When I launch the maven build on my development workstation the tests are working.
On the build server the maven build is trigged by TFS / MSBuild
Before the 6th of June, 2015 , the tests used to run both in my development environment and in the build environment.
Now, after 6th of June, the tests are not working anymore on the Build server (Vindows Virtualized Environment). There was no code change in the period, but now the tests are failing.
Currently the tests executed on the build server are always returning an error similar to this: "Could not find widget : .. "
As described above, the same tests are working on my local development environment; and the same tests used to work on the build server in previous months.
So,
(1) I am wondering if there was any change in the SWTBot code, that resulted in an incompatibility with Windows Virtual Environment.
(2) Is it possible to get the state of the update site before June 2015 ?
- If so please, tell me how
Thank you in advance for spending your time on this

I love Windows on my MacBook, but I'm not a gamer (at all) and I know gaming is the ultimate road-test. Your post indicates you are likely competent enough to draw a thorough conclusion on your own, but I notice you have not considered malware, spyware, virus & anti-virus interference. I suppose this was likely taken care of by a fresh install, but maybe reinfection happened just as fast. One thing I have done is to open Device Manager and identify + update all possible stale drivers. Apple is not that aggressive at providing new ones.
Must be vexing to have this happen, but it is an interesting post, since people everywhere are wondering if Apple hardware really IS as good as PC....
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