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Windows Subsystem for Linux Now Generally Available in Microsoft Store
The Windows Subsystem for Linux has reached GA status in the Microsoft Store, adding support for Windows 10 in addition to Windows 11. Among the most notable features in WSL 1.0.0 are opt-in systemd support and the possibility of running Linux GUI applications on Windows 10.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices
During the recent Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) and Arc-enabled servers (the company’s multi-cloud management solution).
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Microsoft Introduces "Dev Box" Service as a Cloud-Based IDE for Developers
During the recent Build conference, Microsoft announced Microsoft Dev Box. This new cloud service provides developers with secure, ready-to-code developer workstations for hybrid teams of any size. With the new service, the company aims to make life easier for developers to quickly access a preconfigured environment with all the tools and resources to write code.
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Writing Native Windows Apps with React and WinUI 3
The latest releases of React Native Windows, a Microsoft framework for building native Windows 10 applications, upgrade to the latest React Native version (0.64) and experimentally support WinUI 3 (in preview). Microsoft also maintains react-native-macos for native MacOS applications.
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Microsoft Releases Project Reunion 0.5 Preview
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Project Reunion 0.5 Preview, a set of developer components and tools that unifies access to existing Win32 and UWP APIs under a single API layer, decoupled from the operating system. The new release also includes the first stable release of WinUI 3, the newest version of the native UI platform for Windows 10.
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Microsoft Announces Azure IoT Edge Modules for Linux on Windows in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, also known as EFLOW. With EFLOW, customers run production Linux-based cloud-native workloads on Windows IoT.
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Microsoft Edge WebView2 Now Generally Available
After publishing last year a preview release of WebView2, a Chromium-based control to host web content within native Windows applications, Microsoft recently announced the general availability of WebView2 for production Win32 C/C++, .NET Framework, .NET Core, and .NET 5 applications. WebView2 provides two distribution models (evergreen/fixed) with a different update policy (automatic/manual).
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Google Engineer Tailors Swift for Windows
The vision for Swift to become a cross-platform programming language has moved one step further with the introduction of a Swift toolchain for Windows 10. Early adopters can now use Swift to create Windows 10 programs that interoperate through the C ABI with existing libraries available on the platform.
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OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM
Microsoft has made its first big contribution to OpenJDK: Porting OpenJDK to Windows 10 ARM (AArch64).
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Microsoft Patches Severe Crypto32.dll Vulnerability
Microsoft has released patches for various versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 and 2016 to fix a severe vulnerability affecting system validation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. This vulnerability enables an attacker to spoof the validity of a certificate chain and signature validation and requires prompt patching.
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Microsoft Announces React Native for Windows, with Focus on Performance
Microsoft recently announced at Microsoft Build 2019 a MIT-licensed, performance-oriented re-implementation of React Native for Windows. The new React Native for Windows will enable React Native developers to build native Windows apps with React. With the Windows 10 SDK support, developers may target a large variety of Windows devices such as PCs, tablets, laplets, Xbox, or Mixed Reality devices.
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Windows Virtual Desktop Public Preview on Azure: Q&A with Microsoft's Scott Manchester
InfoQ caught up with Scott Manchester, group program manager at Microsoft for Windows Virtual Desktop, regarding the public preview on Azure announcement.
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Homebrew 1.9 Adds Linux Support, Auto-Cleanup, and More
The latest release of popular macOS package manager Homebrew includes support for Linux, optional automatic package cleanup, and extended binary package support. InfoQ has spoken with Mike McQuaid, current maintainer of the project.
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Microsoft Patches Active Internet Explorer Zero Day Exploit
Microsoft has issued an out-of-band update for a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) scripting engine that could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, according to Tenable research engineer Satnam Narang, and users should update their systems as soon as possible.
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Robot Operating System Comes to Windows
Robot Operating System (ROS), a meta-operating system for robot development, is now available on Windows 10. Microsoft’s initial, experimental build, dubbed ROS1, is integrated within Visual Studio and includes a full port of ROS Core and several modules. According to Microsoft, ROS on Windows will evolve to include full integration with GPU-based machine learning and Azure IoT Hub.