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 ...

Microsoft Monday made an historic move by submitting device drivers to the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. Microsoft has had a checkered past with both Linux and its open source GPL licensing ...

Microsoft is known for its bull-in-a-china shop tactics, but the vendor was actually pushed by the Linux driver project team to make Monday’s historic code submission to the Linux kernel. Microsoft is ...

Linux kernel version 6.4 is getting improved Rust code. This was revealed by some of the most recent patches. This update comes hot on the heels of the recent news regarding Windows 11's Rust support.

Why it matters: The tiny Linux kernel hidden within Windows has grown, and is now a proper, stable part of the operating system thanks to the Microsoft Store integration. Updates will be easier and ...

You'll have to pry them out my CLI.

Experts say Microsoft’s submission Monday of virtualization driver source code to the Linux kernel marks a watershed event in the vendor’s understanding of open source’s future. “This is another sign ...

In a move that caused more than a few eyes to bulge and jaws to drop, last July Microsoft announced it was contributing code to the Linux community with hopes of having it included in the Linux tree.

The OS of a thousand faces.

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux driver project lead and a Novell fellow, pressed Microsoft to submit to the Linux kernel Microsoft is known for its bull-in-a-china-shop tactics, but the vendor was ...