The tools Linux developers love are coming to Windows.

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its Linux subsystem even further into Windows.

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 was released nearly 3 years ago. This brought the ability to run the Bash shell and run Linux binary executables that you’d be able to run on Ubuntu Linux.

Microsoft is working on making Windows Terminal the default terminal emulator program in Windows 11 instead of the Windows Console Host, starting next year. Windows Terminal was unveiled by Redmond at ...