The announcement closes a nearly nine-year-old request from the developer community, and signals a new era of collaboration between Microsoft and open-source contributors.

Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 10 security updates on October 14, 2025, even though the operating system remains ...

Developers can now look under the hood at the component that allows a Linux environment to run within Windows.

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux, years after the platform's debut.… The Windows Subsystem for Linux was first announced in 2016 and shipped with the Windows 10 ...

Build 2025 was all about AI, but Microsoft also made WSL open-source The company knows ... Microsoft has officially open-sourced Windows Subsystem for Linux at its annual software engineer and ...

Microsoft releases its Windows subsystem for Linux as an open source project and invites the community to develop it. However, some parts remain proprietary. Microsoft has now released the Windows ...

So that’s the future of Windows Microsoft is selling right now: deep integration for AI agents to use apps on your PC, if you want, and more ways for app developers to create AI features that use your ...

Microsoft is moving in the right direction with both open source and AI, making the necessary adjustments to ensure that the ...

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