Maybe WSL did it better all along.

The tools Linux developers love are coming to Windows.

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. The ...

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

It took Microsoft long enough, but the company has finally open-sourced its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) code. The announcement was made at the Build 2025 developer conference, closing a nearly ...

Microsoft has made its Windows Subsystem for Linux open source. The announcement was made as its BUILD 2025 developer conference. At its BUILD 2025 event today Microsoft has announced the ...

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’s Windows Package Manager is a command line tool that lets you install, update, and remove applications on PCs running Windows 10 or Windows 11. First introduced a few years ago, the ...

Microsoft introduced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10. Initially it allowed you to run command line Linux utilities in Windows, but over time Microsoft added support for ...