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

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Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft ...

Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, a set of UNIX-style command-line utilities. Installing Coreutils for Windows allows you to use commands such as grep in Command Prompt (CMD) and ...

I spend more time today than ever before interacting with terminal windows, which is something I don’t think Past Me would have believed in the early ’90s. Back then, poor MS-DOS was the staid ...

FAT is Fattening: Some of Microsoft's technical decisions in Windows originated from arbitrary or outdated constraints, many of which could now be removed with relative ease. Case in point: the FAT32 ...

PCWorld reports that Windows 11 preview builds are removing the long-standing 32GB FAT32 formatting limit for external drives. Users can now format up to 2TB storage with FAT32 using Command Prompt, ...

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Something to look forward to: Microsoft released new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds to the Canary, Dev, and Beta channels this week, bringing multiple new features for developers and power users.

In 2026, Microsoft might be one of the most criticized companies out there, thanks to its aggressive push into AI and the current state of Windows 11. But at the same time, it’s also behind one of the ...

Windows 11 has always nudged you to use a Microsoft account, and it’s been getting worse since the last few Windows updates, but that could change soon. Some senior Microsoft engineers, who have ...

Make searching for files easier with these GUI tools. Each of these apps will work on most distributions. You can install these tools for free. In the early days of ...