The tools Linux developers love are coming to Windows.

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

Maybe WSL did it better all along.

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s ...

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications.

Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its Linux subsystem even further into Windows.

Microsoft’s Build 2026 Windows updates add developer setup tools, local AI models, Linux workflows, and agent security controls.

This week Microsoft unveiled the Surface RTX Dev Box mini PC with an NVIDIA RTX Spark processor and a Surface Laptop Ultra with the same chip. Both are expected to arrive later this year and both are ...