The announcement closes a nearly nine-year-old request from the developer community, and signals a new era of collaboration ...

Developers can now look under the hood at the component that allows a Linux environment to run within Windows.

Developers can now download the code, contribute bug fixes and new features, and participate in WSL's development.

Microsoft is making its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open-source today, opening up the code for community members to ...

Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux has become an important tool for developers and power users since it was introduced ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a ...

Microsoft’s Recall is a security disaster disguised as a feature. Messaging app Signal is doing what it can to block it.

AnduinOS, a one-man project from a Chinese Microsoft engineer, is quite a new Ubuntu remix that reshapes GNOME in the image ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux was first announced in 2016 and shipped with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update that year. It was based on a pico process provider, lxcore.sys, which enabled Windows to ...

Microsoft officially announced on Monday its decision to open source Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), nearly a decade after ...

Build 2025 was all about AI, but Microsoft also made WSL open-source The company knows just how valuable its community of ...