Microsoft’s new version of Windows gets rid of all the annoyances (for a price)

Anybody who has set up a new Windows PC for development knows the tedium—spending the first few hours installing tools, muting distractions, changing File Explorer settings, and configuring Linux support. Microsoft’s Project Zenith is designed to make that ritual obsolete. It is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience that ships pre-configured instead of a blank-slate install.