Microsoft’s Build 2026 Windows updates add developer setup tools, local AI models, Linux workflows, and agent security controls. Windows is getting a major developer-focused upgrade as Microsoft ...

Microsoft has been rethinking its commitment to Windows for a while now, with Insider builds of the operating system showing a swing away from web-based user experiences and back to native code. That ...

Upgrades to WSL make Linux on Windows more powerful. Linux gets more direct access to GPUs and NPUs. A pure Linux desktop is still best for AI devs. Microsoft takes one more step towards a Linux ...

Most "free performance" tweaks for Windows end up making little measurable difference. I was skeptical about the free Windows setting that's supposed to speed up development folders, but I still tried ...