The tools Linux developers love are coming to Windows.

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

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 ...

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.