Microsoft Build 2026 showcased a range of developer-focused improvements to Windows. Highlights include a vertical taskbar now available in Windows Insider builds, a new 'Intelligent Terminal' with integrated AI agent support (including GitHub Copilot), WSL containers with GPU support, a git-aware File Explorer showing branch names and file statuses, Dev Drive optimized for development workloads, over 75 new command-line utilities added to Windows, and a preconfigured WSL profile with tools like Starship, ZSH, and Homebrew. The Surface RTX Spark device was demonstrated running three local AI models simultaneously (including a 120B parameter model) for local, unmetered AI-assisted coding via multi-agent orchestration with fleet.
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