Microsoft has surprised many in the Linux developer community in recent years. Surprises have included bringing things like the Bash shell to Windows, or native OpenSSH in Windows 10, and even ...

The newest Windows 10 Fast Ring release, 14316, includes Ubuntu and Bash. It may not have a Linux foundation, but this is close as a Windows PC has ever come to also being a Linux computer.

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 was released nearly 3 years ago. This brought the ability to run the Bash shell and run Linux binary executables that you’d be able to run on Ubuntu ...

Windows Gets a full Linux Kernel Microsoft is also overhauling WSL. Later this year, it’ll start shipping with a full Linux kernel, created and customized in-house by Microsoft’s engineers.

This new architecture, uses a real Linux kernel and changes how these Linux binaries interact with Windows and your computer’s hardware. Although still providing the same user experience as WSL ...

Microsoft said Windows Terminal, another command line interface, is a modern app for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt (cmd.exe), PowerShell, and the Windows Subsystem for ...

Needless to say, the CrowdStrike application that caused the problem was running in kernel mode (It has a "kernel driver" to be technical). Microsoft's plan to make Windows better ...