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 ...

Microsoft begins development of Windows 11 version 26H2 with new Taskbar options, Privacy page changes, Screen tint, and ...

Windows Build 2026 positions AI agents as core to native app development. Microsoft Execution Containers add policy-based sandboxing for safer agent code execution. Windows 365, Aion and Solara expand ...

Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its Linux subsystem even further into Windows. Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its ...

In Vernor Vinge’s science fiction novel A Deepness in the Sky, one of the characters works as a software archaeologist, mining thousands of years of code and libraries to find the solutions to ...

Microsoft used Build 2026 to position Windows as a platform for building and running AI agents, not just adding AI features to Windows apps. New and preview technologies include Windows Development ...

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 ...

Dave Plummer was once a programmer for Microsoft, where he played a key role in the development of the Windows Task Manager as well as the ZIP archive import for the operating system. The man has ...