Build and ship faster with a developer-optimized experience on Windows | BRK261
Microsoft published a public Winget config repo that auto-installs a full dev environment (WSL, Ubuntu, git, GitHub CLI, Copilot CLI, VS Code) on Windows.
“So our team has actually put together a Windgate configuration file that does a bunch of this stuff for you.”
At Build session BRK261, the Windows developer-experience team announced a public 'Windows developer config' repo with an idempotent Winget configuration file that provisions WSL, Ubuntu, and common dev tooling including Copilot CLI in one step. It streamlines dev setup on Windows but is incremental tooling news with limited broad AI-industry impact.