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Windows Terminal Preview v0.7 Release

November 26, 2019 Nov 26, 2019 11/26/19
Kayla Cinnamon
Another release is out for the Windows Terminal preview! This release is labeled as v0.7 in the About section of the Terminal. As always, you can download the Terminal from the Microsoft Store and from the GitHub releases page. Here's what's new in this release: Windows Terminal Updates Panes You are now able to split your Terminal window ...

Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 Release

August 27, 2019 Aug 27, 2019 08/27/19
Kayla Cinnamon
The time has come for another update to the Windows Terminal! Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 is now available in the Microsoft Store and on GitHub! And for those interested in more detail, please review the Terminal v0.4 release notes. Settings Updates Profiles.json is Now in LocalState The profiles.json file has been moved from the ...

Announcing WSL 2

May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 05/6/19
Craig Loewen
Today we’re unveiling the newest architecture for the Windows Subsystem for Linux: WSL 2! Changes in this new architecture will allow for: dramatic file system performance increases, and full system call compatibility, meaning you can run more Linux apps in WSL 2 such as Docker. What exactly is WSL 2? Our top requests from the WSL ...

Windows 10 Creators Update: What’s new in Bash/WSL & Windows Console

April 11, 2017 Apr 11, 2017 04/11/17
Rich Turner
When Windows 10 Anniversary Update (AU) was shipped, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was still far from complete, and was known to have many incompatibilities, especially with popular developer tools like node.js, Java, etc. However, it was important to get this exciting new feature into the hands of real users so that we could learn ...

Use Visual C++ for Linux to build and debug C++ code on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17
Rich Turner
I first learned about Visual C++ for Linux, which was released in March 2016, shortly before the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was first announced. I was immediately blown away by how VERY cool this feature of Visual Studio is! What's insanely cool about this feature is that when the project is built, VS opens an SSH channel to a target...

WSL adds Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial support

October 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016 10/19/16
Rich Turner
Not only does Windows 10 Insider build #14951 introduce Bash Windows interop, it also delivers support for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial). While many of our more intrepid early-adopters have manually upgraded their Ubuntu 14.04 instances to Ubuntu 16.04, as of Windows 10 Insider build #14951, if you clean-install a new Linux instance or uninstall and...

Hanselman takes a tour around Bash on Windows

July 1, 2016 Jul 1, 2016 07/1/16
Rich Turner
If you're anything like me, you're already overloaded with work/studies & life, and there's just never enough time to go and dig into all the awesome new open-source projects, cool new tools, exciting new languages & platforms, and any amount of other technology that appears almost hourly these days. Wouldn't it be great if someone ...

Making the Windows Command Line Cool Again!

March 24, 2016 Mar 24, 2016 03/24/16
Rich Turner
Welcome to our new blog focusing on Windows command line tools for developers. We'll soon be publishing news, articles, updates, information, links and all manner of content related to the Windows command-line tools including PowerShell, Bash on Ubuntu on Windows and the Console itself. Stay tuned!  ...