Microsoft Windows has improved massively as a developer environment over the past few years. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you work seamlessly with Linux on Windows without the clunk and ...

For those that want *nix tools on Windows without WSL, I highly recommend MSYS2. The mintty terminal that comes with MSYS2 should even help WSL users that want a good terminal without having to run ...

In Vernor Vinge’s science fiction novel A Deepness in the Sky, one of the characters works as a software archaeologist, mining thousands of years of code and libraries to find the solutions to ...

Microsoft wants to make it easier for developers to build AI-powered apps on Windows devices. On Monday during its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced Windows AI Foundry, a rebranding and ...

I love Windows Terminal: it unifies PowerShell, Command Prompt and WSL into fast, keyboard-driven tabs. winget installs, updates, and uninstalls apps with one command—no hunting for installers. WSL ...

The company introduced Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, or WPF/E, software to build applications using Microsoft’s XAML page layout language in conjunction with JavaScript. Until this week, ...

Microsoft Corp. today continued to advance its commitment to artificial intelligence in its Windows 11 operating system with an announcement during its Ignite 2023 conference unveiling updates to the ...

One of the perks of running Windows Subsystem for Linux is that it allows me to use Linux tools on Windows. There are several default Windows utilities for which Linux has much better alternatives, so ...

Spread the loveFor years, the idea of running Docker on Windows felt a bit like a square peg in a round hole. Docker, born ...

Embarcadero Technologies will release later this month upgraded development tools for Windows and PHP as part of its RAD Studio XE suite. With the suite, Embarcadero will make accommodations for ...