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Here are some instructions on how to get ROS working on Windows 10. It won't work on Windows 7 because Windows 7 doesn't have the ability to run linux binaries natively which Windows 10 can (mostly from what I know). This will require you to do a manual patch to ros_comm.

http://janbernloehr.de/2017/06/10/ros-windows (from http://wiki.ros.org/Installation/Windows)

You can use Eclipse on Ubuntu from what I know if that's all that you're looking for.

Here are some instructions on how to get ROS working on Windows 10. It won't work on Windows 7 because Windows 7 doesn't have the ability to run linux binaries natively which Windows 10 can (mostly from what I know). This will require you to do a manual patch to ros_comm.

http://janbernloehr.de/2017/06/10/ros-windows (from http://wiki.ros.org/Installation/Windows)

You can use Eclipse on Ubuntu from what I know if that's all that you're looking for.

Here are some instructions on how to get ROS working on Windows 10. It won't work on Windows 7 because Windows 7 doesn't have the ability to run linux binaries natively which Windows 10 can (mostly from what I know). This will require you to do a manual patch to ros_comm.

http://janbernloehr.de/2017/06/10/ros-windows (from http://wiki.ros.org/Installation/Windows)

You can use Eclipse on Ubuntu from what I know if that's all that you're looking for.

Edit:

As @gvdhoorn pointed out in the comments, there are issues with using ROS on Windows. Here's admonition that was referred to:

Note that this is not a native installation of ROS Lunar on Windows, but the Ubuntu version of ROS Lunar running on-top of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Support for GUI tools is limited (fi: all 3D rendering is software based) and needs additional software on the Windows side (X server), access to hardware is currently not or only minimally possible (a WSL limitation) and Windows file system performance is not on-par with a Linux system which has an impact on IO-bottlenecked tasks.

Here are some instructions on how to get ROS working on Windows 10. It won't work on Windows 7 because Windows 7 doesn't have the ability to run linux binaries natively which Windows 10 can (mostly from what I know). This will require you to do a manual patch to ros_comm.

http://janbernloehr.de/2017/06/10/ros-windows (from http://wiki.ros.org/Installation/Windows)

You can use Eclipse on Ubuntu from what I know if that's all that you're looking for.

Edit:

As @gvdhoorn pointed out in the comments, there are issues with using ROS on Windows. Here's the admonition that was referred to:

Note that this is not a native installation of ROS Lunar on Windows, but the Ubuntu version of ROS Lunar running on-top of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Support for GUI tools is limited (fi: all 3D rendering is software based) and needs additional software on the Windows side (X server), access to hardware is currently not or only minimally possible (a WSL limitation) and Windows file system performance is not on-par with a Linux system which has an impact on IO-bottlenecked tasks.