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Windows Command-Line: Backgrounder

June 20, 2018 Jun 20, 2018 06/20/18
Rich Turner
This is the first of a series of posts in which we’ll explore all things command-line – from the origins of the command-line and the evolution of the terminal, to what we’re doing to overhaul and modernize the Windows Console & command-line in future Windows releases.

Windows Subsystem for Linux //Build 2018 Recap

May 15, 2018 May 15, 2018 05/15/18
Tara Raj
Last week, the WSL team attended Microsoft //Build 2018. We had a great time meeting many of you and answering questions at the command line booth. In case you missed it, you can watch out session, Set up a Windows Dev Environment that Feels Like $HOME, online on Channel9. In this post, we will summarize the NEW announcement we made during //...

Join us for a hot cup o Chocolatey!

May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 05/8/18
Yosef Durr
Setting up a dev box should be easy and fast.  At BUILD 2018 we announced a collaboration with Chocolatey and Boxstarter.  The project founders discuss the collaboration in the following video. Improving Machine Setup Have you set up a new dev machine and found it was frustrating or time consuming?  It's important to have a repeatable, ...

Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad

May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 05/8/18
Michel Lopez [MSFT]
For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF). This means that Notepad was unable to correctly display the contents of text files created in Unix, Linux and macOS. For example, here’s a screenshot of Notepad trying to display the ...

Tabbed Console starts here

April 13, 2018 Apr 13, 2018 04/13/18
Rich Turner
[2018-06-29: Important Note: As announced in the release notes for Windows 10 Insider build 17704, Sets and Tabs will NOT ship in the next mainstream release of Windows (codenamed RS5). Please read the first bullet under the heading "General changes, improvements, and fixes for PC" for more details.]   [2018-04-16: Updated to better reflect...

Open Sourcing a WSL Sample for Linux Distribution Maintainers and Sideloading Custom Linux Distributions

March 26, 2018 Mar 26, 2018 03/26/18
Tara Raj
We are happy to announce that we have open sourced a WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) sample  for Linux distribution maintainers.  This sample allows distro maintainers to build WSL distro packages for the Microsoft Store and developers to create custom Linux distro packages for sideloading.  You can find the distro launcher repo on GitHub...

What’s new for the Command Line in Windows 10 version 1803

March 7, 2018 Mar 7, 2018 03/7/18
Yosef Durr
The next Windows 10 update includes many new features for Command Line developers. In this post we'll review WSL, Hyper-V, new tools, and UWP Console applications coming to the Microsoft Store.  We want to thank everyone who tried these updates via the Insiders program and provided feedback.  We really appreciate hearing from you both when ...