Microsoft was once apprehensive about Linux, with Steve Ballmer likening the operating system in 2001 to a “cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” ...

A few decades ago, the powers that be at Microsoft characterized Linux and open source in general as a cancer. Today, the company has pretty much embraced and even extended them, acquiring GitHub and ...

Microsoft is adding GPU and graphical user interface (GUI) support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, pushing the intriguing Windows feature ever closer to becoming a full-fledged Linux instantiation ...

Windows 10's Windows System for Linux (WSL) will soon let developers run Linux GUI apps, while Linux guests on Windows will soon gain access to GPU power for hardware acceleration. WSL is currently ...

On April 21, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 test build, 21364, to the Dev Channel. This build includes a few new noteworthy features including the ability to run Linux graphical user interface ...

When Windows announced it was adding built-in support for Linux via the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), it looked promising. However, it was riddled with issues ...

Microsoft recently released a new feature for the Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) that allows you to configure global options that will be used by all WSL2 Linux distributions installed ...

Microsoft has announced that the upcoming Windows 10 2004 release will also include Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) whose Linux kernel will be kept updated via Windows Update. When Microsoft ...

Linux GUI app support is now shipping. It's available as part of the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Enables the ability to run graphical Linux apps on Windows. Update: Microsoft has since clarified ...

WSL is a virtual environment that allows you to easily run Linux on Windows. Conventionally, it was necessary to use virtualization software such as VMware and VirtualBox to run Linux on Windows, but ...