Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows remains a dominant player in end-user laptop and desktop computing. Despite many advances in the 2010s and 2020s, many software installation and development remains with distinct practices and toolkits versus Unix-like operating systems such as macOS or Linux.

2025

2025-07-02 – GitHub Actions winget install
2025-03-22 – CMake check for 64-bit time_t
2025-02-16 – Windows 32-bit binaries with CMake + MSVC
2025-01-09 – nanosleep() on Windows with Visual Studio

2024

2024-12-26 – Static linked executable
2024-12-23 – CMake / Meson run check DLL Hell
2024-12-20 – Windows set WiFi preference order
2024-07-15 – Enable Windows battery time on hover
2024-04-12 – Python tempfile on Windows
2024-02-25 – PowerShell tilde expansion
2024-02-19 – CMake TARGET_RUNTIME_DLL_DIRS for CTest
2024-01-24 – Python subprocess missing DLL detection

2023

2023-11-03 – Install Anaconda Python in Windows PowerShell
2023-10-16 – Apple Studio Display brightness adjust from Windows / Linux
2023-07-24 – Dynamic libraries and CMake
2023-06-24 – Python subprocess package executable
2023-04-09 – Disable Windows reporting modal
2023-04-01 – Git apply patch line ending
2023-03-25 – Free Windows Virtual Machine images
2023-03-22 – Windows Git symlinks
2023-03-20 – mpi_f08 Fortran on Windows

2022

2022-12-22 – Intel oneAPI icpx Windows
2022-11-11 – Git set executable file permission on Windows
2022-11-09 – curl build native Windows Schannel
2022-10-29 – User home path in Matlab, Octave, and Python
2022-10-02 – CTest set environment variable
2022-05-09 – Windows POSIX read() write()
2022-04-08 – Prohibited Git branch names
2022-02-17 – CMake shared libraries on Visual Studio / oneAPI

2021

2021-11-10 – Python 3 Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required
2021-08-07 – Intel MPI on Windows
2021-06-02 – Fortran allocate large variable memory
2021-05-17 – Fortran MPI on Windows
2021-03-30 – CMake expanduser tilde ~
2021-03-28 – CMake file separator
2021-03-02 – SSH-VNC client on Windows
2021-01-18 – Using CMake on Windows

2020

2020-10-31 – Matlab Compiler tbb.dll oneTBB
2020-08-26 – Windows WPA3 diagnosis
2020-05-03 – Find MAC of Bluetooth device on Windows
2020-04-16 – Matlab on Windows holds files open
2020-04-05 – Installing LaTeX editor in Windows
2020-03-04 – Windows Git Credential Manager
2020-03-03 – SSH-agent for Windows, macOS, Linux

2019

2019-12-08 – fix bug with Git for Windows nanorc error
2019-09-27 – One-click RDP + SSH Linux to remote Windows PC
2019-07-10 – Fix Git line endings on Windows + Cygwin or WSL
2019-06-04 – Update MiKTeX packages
2019-04-09 – Python calling Python via subprocess
2019-03-12 – Windows WSL git file permissions
2019-03-01 – Python pathlib cast to str for subprocess

2018

2018-02-08 – Python Launcher executable scripts Windows