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

Some Windows users have noticed painfully slow downloads or laggy network responses inside WSL. This can be due to multiple reasons, but ultimately, the components working with NAT are at fault here.

While Microsoft used to denounce Linux in the 2000s, it can't seem to stop itself from finding ways to run Linux programs on Windows today. While WSL, or Windows Susbsystem for Linux, has been the ...

Changes to WSL make staying on Windows easier, especially for developers building or running Linux-based AI, container, or dev workloads.

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

The offices of Google are pictured in London on February 28, 2026. JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images Google released agents-cli on April 21, 2026, and it has shipped 13 updates in the 71 days since — ...