With the end of support for Windows 10 finally here, many have (perhaps surprisingly) opted instead to jump to Linux instead ...

"After 43 years, this is the first day that we are announcing — and will be distributing — a custom Linux kernel," said Brad Smith, Microsoft's president.

In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.

Installing Linux distributions using WSL is simple enough. The official Microsoft Store has plenty of distros to choose from, ...

A lot of open source advocates like to rage against the machine at Microsoft, but when a former Microsoft Research employee says that Windows 7 won’t stop Linux from market domination, that’s an ...

It took Microsoft long enough, but the company has finally open-sourced its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) code. The announcement was made at the Build 2025 developer conference, closing a nearly ...

In recent years, Microsoft has changed its attitude towards the open source operating system Linux. A slimmed-down version can be found, for example, in the Windows subsystem for Linux. This ...

Microsoft is bringing the Linux 'sudo' feature to Windows Server 2025, offering a new way for admins to elevate privileges for console applications. Superuser do, or sudo, is a Linux console program ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

An off-the-clock Microsoft worker prevented malicious code from spreading into widely-used versions of Linux via a compression format called XZ Utils. An off-the-clock Microsoft worker prevented ...

.NET 8, the next planned version of the Microsoft’s open source software development platform, is set to emphasize Linux accommodations as well as cloud development and containers. The new .NET ...