Perhaps the biggest surprise to come from Microsoft's Build developer conference last week was the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). With that developer focus, Microsoft isn't supporting WSL as a ...

At Microsoft’s Build 2016 developer’s conference, Microsoft and Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, announced a partnership that will allow Ubuntu to run using native Windows libraries.

With the release of Wine 8, the Windows replica for Linux has matured again and enables more Windows programs. In most cases, however, additional work is necessary to set up Windows programs.

This shouldn't come as any great surprise, but Linux is faster than Windows, and at least one anonymous Microsoft developer is willing to admit it and explain why that's the case.

Microsoft is allowing Windows 10 testers to try out Linux GUI apps. Full audio and GPU hardware acceleration is enabled, so Linux GUI apps can run alongside regular Windows ones.

Wine, the software that Microsoft has partially credited with making Windows 10 Windows Subsystem for Linux possible, has been updated with over 7,400 changes. Wine is a compatibility layer ...

Decisions made years ago about which operating system to roll out can affect corporate security today. Of the big three in widespread use, one can credibly be called the most secure.

The fight between Windows and Linux has been nearly as overhyped as a Don King venture in a monster Vegas arena, screaming fans included. In one corner, hard-core Microsoft fans avow Windows ...

Unsure of which operating system you want to run on your laptop? Jack Wallen offers some key benefits of the available choices.

Microsoft is open-sourcing its Windows Subsystem for Linux. Developers will be able to download the code, build it from source, and add fixes or features.