Microsoft makes Linux developers feel more at home in Windows with Coreutils release (opens in new tab)

Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s Build 2026 developer conference in Seattle, Coreutils is about reducing what Microsoft terms the “cognitive load” faced by developers when moving between Windows and other platforms. Currently, accessing the Linux command line utilities that are considered essential in many CI/CD development enviro...