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    Case Study: How many colors are too many colors for Windows Terminal?
    Case Study: How many colors are too many colors for Windows Terminal?
    May 4, 2022 May 4, 2022 05/4/22
    lhecker
    A group of users were trying to implement a simple, terminal-based video game and found the performance under Windows Terminal to be entirely unsuitable for such a task. The performance issue could be replicated by repeatedly drawing a "rainbow" and measuring how many frames per second (FPS) we can achieve. The one below has 20 distinct colors...

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    Windows Package Manager 1.2
    Windows Package Manager 1.2
    March 4, 2022 Mar 4, 2022 03/4/22
    Demitrius Nelon
    We've been busy improving the Windows Package Manager. Today I have the pleasure of announcing the availability of Windows Package Manager 1.2. It has been released to the Microsoft Store as an automatic update to the "App Installer" this morning if you're running Windows 10 (1809+) or Windows 11. ARM64 Support We've been working to ...

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    Windows Terminal Preview 1.13 Release
    Windows Terminal Preview 1.13 Release
    February 3, 2022 Feb 3, 2022 02/3/22
    Kayla Cinnamon
    Welcome to the first Windows Terminal release of 2022! This release will add the new features below to Windows Terminal Preview 1.13 and migrate Windows Terminal to version 1.12, which includes all of the features from this previous blog post. The Windows Terminal 1.12 build will be released through the Windows Insider Program before being ...

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    Windows Wednesday
    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 ...

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    Windows Terminal as your Default Command Line Experience
    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 ...

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    Connecting USB devices to WSL
    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 ...

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    OneAPI/L0, OpenVINO and OpenCL coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux for Intel GPUs
    OneAPI/L0, OpenVINO and OpenCL coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux for Intel GPUs
    November 4, 2021 Nov 4, 2021 11/4/21
    Steve Pronovost
    We are happy to announce, that in partnership with Intel, we are bringing support for hardware accelerated OneAPI/L0, OpenVINO and OpenCL on Intel GPUs to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Support for these APIs in WSL further increases the choices of compute APIs available to developers and ensures the best performance and functionality...

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    Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 Release
    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 ...

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

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    Windows Package Manager 1.1
    Windows Package Manager 1.1
    October 5, 2021 Oct 5, 2021 10/5/21
    Demitrius Nelon
    I’m excited to share some great news. We’re releasing Windows Package Manager 1.1. We’ve squashed some annoying bugs and added some highly anticipated features. The Windows Package Manager is being released to Windows 10 (build 1809 and newer) and Windows 11 as an automatic update via the Microsoft Store. The moment we’ve been waiting ...

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