Changes to WSL make staying on Windows easier, especially for developers building or running Linux-based AI, container, or dev workloads.

Now not only can you run Linux from within Windows without third-party tools, but can do so within containers. Microsoft has ...

After being announced at Build 2026, Microsoft has made WSL containers available in public preview.

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 ...

People just want to use Linux.

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a few components that are part of Windows. This marks a milestone for a project ...

Microsoft's WSL team has confirmed WSL 3 doesn't exist. It was mistaken for WSL Containers, which is arriving in few days as ...

At its Build developer conference this week, Microsoft announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now open source. Developers can download the code, contribute bug fixes and new features, and ...

Considering that Windows NT has the concept of so-called ‘subsystems’ whereby you can run different systems side-by-side, starting with the POSIX subsystem and later the Windows Subsystem for Linux ...