The tools Linux developers love are coming to Windows.

Maybe WSL did it better all along.

WSL 3 makes staying on Windows easier, especially for developers building or running Linux-based AI, container, or dev ...

As well as Coreutils, the Build 2026 developer conference also saw Microsoft announce WSL containers CLI and API to deploy Linux containers on Windows, a new framework for autonomous agents with open ...

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

For decades, Coreutils have been part of the standard repertoire for Linux administrators and developers. Those who wanted to use these tools on Windows with largely identical behavior previously ...

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

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

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 was released nearly 3 years ago. This brought the ability to run the Bash shell and run Linux binary executables that you’d be able to run on Ubuntu Linux.

With Microsoft's new Dev Configs, a Windows installation becomes a ready-to-use developer workstation with a single command – including WSL and Ubuntu.