There have been quite a few potential Windows alternatives that have popped up from time to time over the years. In our Look Back column, we have been revisiting some of these. For example, earlier ...

GUI matters: Microsoft released the original edition of Windows XP in 2001 and kept the operating system alive for more than 17 years. The once massively popular platform remains fondly remembered, ...

I am interested in porting an application written for Mac OS X to Windows but I'm uncertain about the best APIs to use in terms of ease of development and learning. The backend is straight C/C++. I ...

For those that want *nix tools on Windows without WSL, I highly recommend MSYS2. The mintty terminal that comes with MSYS2 should even help WSL users that want a good terminal without having to run ...