VentureBeat

Microsoft announces Windows Terminal and WSL 2, coming in June

At its Build 2019 developers conference today, Microsoft announced a slew of offerings for Windows developers, including Windows Terminal, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2, XAML Islands, React ...

Microsoft conducts major Windows reorg in effort to build an agentic OS — brings together core engineering and feature teams

Since 2018, the core of Windows and the client experiences have been handled by separate organizations at Microsoft. That's ...
ZDNet

Microsoft makes Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 11 a separate app in the Microsoft Store

Microsoft is making available today, October 11, a preview version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for Windows 11 in the Microsoft Store. This isn't a new version of WSL; Microsoft is just ...
Windows Central

WSL Preview now available in the Microsoft Store for Windows 11

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now available in preview in the Microsoft Store on Windows 11. Installing WSL has gradually been getting easier but this seems to be the new preferred method ...

Microsoft is bringing its Windows engineering teams back together again

Windows is coming back together. Microsoft is bringing its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization again, ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: Windows 10 now lets you access Linux file systems in WSL 2

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 preview lets users attach and mount a physical disk inside their Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) distribution of choice. The new feature is available in Windows 10 ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft launches Windows Terminal 1.0, unveils GPU support and Linux GUI apps in WSL

At Build 2020 today, Microsoft gave developers a slew of new tools to coax them into using Windows over macOS or Linux. Windows Terminal is now out of preview for enterprises, and Windows Subsystem ...
MCPmag

Microsoft Courts Linux Devs by Open Sourcing WSL

Microsoft this week published some Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open source code on the GitHub repository. Specifically, Microsoft published the Distro Launcher code that's used with its WSL ...
GIGAZINE

The Microsoft Store version of 'Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)', which runs Linux applications on Windows, has finally reached the official version

The Microsoft Store version of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which allows you to run Linux applications on Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices, has reached version 1.0.0 and is now available to the ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft fixes WSL 2 breaking bug in new Windows 10 update

Microsoft has released a new Windows 10 2004 preview cumulative update that fixes a bug that breaks the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2). When the Windows 10 KB4571756 cumulative update was ...
Forbes

Microsoft To Ship A Real Linux Kernel On Windows 10, Serviced Through Windows Updates

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. This article is more than 6 years old. Yes, I triple-checked my ...