Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.

If you use Linux, chances are you're familiar with the command line. The shell is a powerful command-line interface, but you can think of running commands as a kind of programming. Here's why. The ...

The Linux shell enables communication with the kernel. The default shell for most distributions is Bash. There's a much more user-friendly option, called Fish. Essentially, the Linux shell interprets ...

With Coreutils for Windows, the same shell commands and scripts should run on Windows, Linux, and WSL. Microsoft relies on ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

Security tooling is not written in a single language. Python powers most automation. C sits at the exploit layer. PowerShell ...

Cisco SD-WAN zero-day CVE-2026-20245 was exploited months before disclosure: Mandiant reveals how a malicious CSV file ...

Attackers can chain three already fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubiquiti UniFi OS server to execute remote code with root privileges and without authentication. The security issues are tracked as ...

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft ...