Another month—another update for the Windows 11 Development Environment, also known as free Windows 11 virtual machines. Version 2305, with the latest updates, is now available for download. Those ...

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

Microsoft's official free Windows 11 virtual machines have been updated to version 2306. The latest version contains various development tools and the most recent Windows 11 "Moment 3" update.

Disk images for Microsoft's Windows 11 Development Environment virtual machines have suddenly become unavailable. As of Oct. 23, all four variants of these virtual machines—Hyper-V, Parallels for Mac, ...

Experience the best of both worlds with WSL, a lightweight and efficient solution for running Linux on Windows.

You can create Hyper-V VMs in Windows 11 using a built-in Windows app or a new developer-oriented tool. Both come with gotchas. Here’s how it all works. Though it may seem that virtual machines, a.k.a ...

Microsoft’s Arm-powered developer hardware delivers on its Windows Arm promise and is inexpensive and versatile enough to compete with other developer PC options. With Microsoft finally making its Arm ...

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 ...

With Dev Configs for Windows, Microsoft has released an open-source collection of configurations that automate the setup of developer workstations on Windows. The configurations are based on the ...