Microsoft Developer: What was announced for developers on Windows at Build 2026?

Kayla Cinnamon runs through what shipped for Windows developers at Build 2026: Intelligent Terminal, an experimental terminal built for working with agents; a WSL-based native container solution; over 75 command line utilities coming to Windows including grep, head, tail and touch; and a WinGet configuration file that sets up a whole dev machine in one pass.



✅ Resources:

Coreutils for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/coreutils

Coreutils docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/core-utils/overview