The announcement closes a nearly nine-year-old request from the developer community, and signals a new era of collaboration ...

Developers can now download the code, contribute bug fixes and new features, and participate in WSL's development.

Developers can now look under the hood at the component that allows a Linux environment to run within Windows.

Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux has become an important tool for developers and power users since it was introduced ...

Microsoft is making its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open-source today, opening up the code for community members to ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a ...

Build 2025 was all about AI, but Microsoft also made WSL open-source The company knows just how valuable its community of ...

Microsoft officially announced on Monday its decision to open source Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), nearly a decade after ...

Microsoft's Build conference showcased a strong AI push, featuring GitHub Copilot's evolution into an autonomous coding agent ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux was first announced in 2016 and shipped with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update that year. It was based on a pico process provider, lxcore.sys, which enabled Windows to ...

So that’s the future of Windows Microsoft is selling right now: deep integration for AI agents to use apps on your PC, if you ...