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

Maybe WSL did it better all along.

Unleash the power of cross-platform command-line compatibility ...

Microsoft unveils a developer-focused Windows experience at Build 2026, integrating advanced Linux utilities and deepening its Linux subsystem support for seamless development.

Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, allowing a stack of familiar "Linux-like" command-line utilities to run ...

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 ...

At the Microsoft Build conference this year, the company announced it will include a command-line text editor with Windows! This was followed up in a Windows blog post. We are introducing a ...

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 ...

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, ...