Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

Microsoft’s Build 2026 Windows updates add developer setup tools, local AI models, Linux workflows, and agent security controls.

In Windows 11, Microsoft introduced a new feature called Dev Home. This software can be used by developers, where they can access tools and resources and build up their app development process to be ...

The command line has a reputation problem on Windows. To the average user, it looks intimidating, feels outdated, and often feels like something meant for developers. In reality, a few well-chosen ...

You can create Hyper-V VMs in Windows 11 using a built-in Windows app or a new developer-oriented tool. Both come with gotchas. Here’s how it all works. Though it may seem that virtual machines, a.k.a ...

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 ...

The Dev Box looks a little like a cartoon anvil or piano fell onto an Xbox Series X and flattened it. Its aluminum casing was designed “to double as a heatsink,” and its preloaded version of Windows ...

Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its Linux subsystem even further into Windows.