Making Windows a developer platform, again (opens in new tab)

Microsoft has been rethinking its commitment to Windows for a while now, with Insider builds of the operating system showing a swing away from web-based user experiences and back to native code. That commitment got a boost at Build 2026 with a that focused on tools and features that help developers take advantage of the platform. The most obvious is support for the standard core Unix utilities, in the shape of a Microsoft-maintained fork of the popular , . Coreutils for Windows installs as a ...