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Windows Wednesday

December 17, 2021 Dec 17, 2021 12/17/21
Kayla Cinnamon
Hey everyone! We have an exciting new web show planned to launch next year called Windows Wednesday that we'd love to tell you more about. 🙂 What is Windows Wednesday? Windows Wednesday is a weekly 30-minute live web show where we'll talk about anything related to Windows. We'll invite subject matter experts to talk about their tools ...

Windows Terminal as your Default Command Line Experience

December 14, 2021 Dec 14, 2021 12/14/21
Kayla Cinnamon
Hey Windows Terminal fans! This month we are delivering a servicing release and the next feature release is scheduled for January, so we figured we'd write a blog post discussing Windows Terminal as the default command line experience on Windows and what our future plans are. What is a default terminal? A default terminal is the terminal ...

Connecting USB devices to WSL

November 4, 2021 Nov 4, 2021 11/4/21
Ben McMorran
I’m a software engineer building tooling for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code to support C++ embedded device development. These physical devices typically connect to a computer over USB, but we discovered we couldn’t use WSL to test our tools on Linux because it does not support USB. We weren’t alone — support for connecting ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 Release

October 20, 2021 Oct 20, 2021 10/20/21
Kayla Cinnamon
Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 is here and it's HUGE! This release adds the new features below to Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 and adds the features from this previous blog post to Windows Terminal 1.11. Windows Terminal 1.11 will also be receiving the Defaults page in the settings UI along with the default terminal functionality. You can ...

A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available!

October 11, 2021 Oct 11, 2021 10/11/21
Craig Loewen
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) preview is now available in the Microsoft Store as a store application for Windows 11 machines! Installing WSL through the store will allow you to get the latest WSL updates and features faster, and without needing to modify your Windows version. Read on to see how that’s possible and what this means for...

Install WSL with a single command now available in Windows 10 version 2004 and higher

July 30, 2021 Jul 30, 2021 07/30/21
Craig Loewen
In the latest Windows Insider Preview builds, you can install everything you need to run WSL just by running wsl.exe --install. We’re excited to announce that this functionality is now officially backported to Windows 10 version 2004 and higher, which will make installing WSL on those builds much easier! Using wsl --install The process ...

Build and Debug C++ with WSL 2 Distributions and Visual Studio 2022

July 14, 2021 Jul 14, 2021 07/14/21
Erika Sweet
This post is written by Erika Sweet, a Program Manager on Microsoft's C++ Team. Visual Studio 2022 introduces a native WSL 2 toolset for C++ development. This toolset is available now in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 Preview 2. WSL 2 is the new, recommended version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) architecture that provides better ...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.10 Release

July 14, 2021 Jul 14, 2021 07/14/21
Kayla Cinnamon
It's Windows Terminal release day! This release introduces Windows Terminal Preview to version 1.10 and Windows Terminal will be updated to version 1.9 soon. Windows Terminal will include all of the features listed in the 1.9 blog post except for the default terminal setting and the ability to edit actions using the settings UI. We are keeping...

Windows Terminal Preview 1.9 Release

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21
Kayla Cinnamon
Happy Microsoft Build 2021 and happy 2nd birthday to Windows Terminal! This release introduces version 1.9 to Windows Terminal Preview and migrates Windows Terminal to version 1.8. As always, you can install both builds from the Microsoft Store as well as from the GitHub releases page. Let's get into what's new! Default terminal You can now ...