Microsoft has made WSL containers generally available on Windows 11. The native tool gives developers a built-in alternative ...

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Microsoft has announced Project Zenith, a preconfigured Windows 11 experience meant for developer-class PCs with coding tools and developer-friendly settings already in place.

WSL Containers is now generally available, with the wslc CLI, a Windows API, Intune and Defender controls, and Compose is on ...

Despite Microsoft upgrading WSL and developer tools in Windows 11, a new developer poll shows Windows trailing far behind ...

Running containers on Windows has never been as easy as it should be. While there are versions of Docker Desktop and Podman that work with both the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Hyper-V, I’ve ...

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Microsoft has officially open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), closing the very first issue ever filed on the Microsoft/WSL GitHub repository: “Will this be open source?” WSL allows ...

Microsoft previewed Windows Subsystem for Linux 3 at its Build 2026 keynote in San Francisco on Tuesday, delivering the architectural overhaul that AI-focused developers on Windows have been waiting ...

Claude Code is a useful way to work with a codebase directly from the terminal, but it can get messy when running inside WSL on Windows. If Claude refuses to start, crashes, shows “command not found,” ...