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

They can talk to your apps, too.

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's own Fedora-derived Linux distro for Azure cloud workloads. Here is how it compares to Ubuntu, ...

The tools Linux developers love are coming to Windows.

The WSL container will bring Linux container development directly into Windows through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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, ...

As great and streamlined as the Windows desktop experience is, one area where it’s at best disappointing and at worst rage-inducing is when it comes to its command line interface (CLI) offerings. In ...

Microsoft has released WSL Containers in public preview, giving Windows developers a built-in way to build, run, and manage Linux containers without relying on Docker Desktop for many common workflows ...

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft ...

Microsoft used Build 2026 to make it very clear that they want Windows 11 to become the primary platform for building AI applications locally, and not just running them. The software giant outlined a ...