The tools Linux developers love are coming to Windows.

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 ...

Maybe WSL did it better all along.

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 ...

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, ...