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Microsoft Ships Native Linux Container Toolkit in WSL 2.9.3 Preview on Windows 11
Microsoft dropped a long-awaited capability into the hands of developers on June 29, 2026, with the first public preview of WSL Containers—dubbed WSLC—bundled in WSL 2.9.3 for Windows 11. The...
Microsoft Coreutils for Windows now installs 100+ Unix commands via WinGet
Microsoft has dramatically simplified the lives of developers and power users by releasing Coreutils for Windows, a set of essential Unix and Linux command-line utilities now available as native...
OpenAI's Internal Code Host: A Potential GitHub Rival for AI-Driven Development
OpenAI has quietly developed an internal code-hosting platform that could potentially evolve into a commercial competitor to GitHub, according to multiple reports. This development signals a...
Microsoft Store CLI: Terminal Control for Windows Apps & Automation
Microsoft has quietly introduced a powerful new tool for Windows power users and IT professionals: a native command-line interface for the Microsoft Store. The Store CLI represents a significant...
Windows 11 October 2025 KB5066835 Patches Critical RDP Flaw and Adds Snap Layouts
Microsoft's October 2025 cumulative security update for Windows 11, designated KB5066835, is now rolling out to users worldwide, delivering critical security patches alongside several user-facing...
Microsoft’s Partner Overhaul Gets Real: VLink’s New Designation and What It Means for You
VLink, an IT services firm specializing in cloud engineering, announced this week that it has achieved the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Digital & App Innovation (Azure). The...
How Windows Users Can Leverage Tmux for Persistent SSH Sessions and Terminal Multitasking
Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux has quietly turned millions of Windows desktops into Linux-capable workstations. But one tool that still catches many newcomers off guard is Tmux, a terminal...
Visual Studio 2026 Debuts Agentic Copilot Superpowers—and New Attack Vectors
Microsoft fired its boldest shot yet in the AI-first IDE war, launching Visual Studio 2026 (version 18.0) through a new Insiders Channel that replaces the long-standing Preview program. The release...
Mandatory MFA Comes to Azure CLI, PowerShell, and IaC Tools—What You Need to Know Before October
Starting in October, Microsoft will begin enforcing multifactor authentication for all write operations performed through the Azure Resource Manager control plane—including Azure CLI, PowerShell,...
How Microsoft Moved 98% of Its IT to Azure — And What It Learned
Microsoft has completed one of the most audacious cloud migrations in corporate history: moving 98% of its internal IT infrastructure—serving more than 200,000 employees and 750,000 managed...
Microsoft's Azure MCP server now works in Visual Studio via Copilot Agent Mode preview
Microsoft just turned Visual Studio 2022 into a command center for Azure, rolling out a public preview of the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension that lets developers query resources, pull logs, run...
Windows 365 Nested Virtualization Brings Linux to Cloud PCs; Android Support Still a Question Mark
Microsoft has officially documented support for nested virtualization on Windows 365 Cloud PCs, giving enterprise users the ability to run Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Hyper-V, and Windows...