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Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Rich Turner January 4, 2017 Jan 4, 2017 01/4/17

This post is in response to a story published on December 6th 2016 by ComputerWorld titled "Say goodbye to the MS-DOS command prompt" and its follow-up article "Follow-up: MS-DOS lives on after all". These "stories" were subsequently picked up by Business Insider and Life Hacker among others and fueled a number of concerned Tweets some of ...

24-bit Color in the Windows Console!

Rich Turner September 22, 2016 Sep 22, 2016 09/22/16

One of the most frequent requests we receive is to increase the number of colors that the Windows Console can support. We love nothing more than to deliver features you ask for! But rather than just add a few more colors, or limit our console to a mere 256 colors, in Windows 10 Insiders Build #14931, we've updated the Windows Console to ...

Hanselman takes a tour around Bash on Windows

Rich Turner July 1, 2016 Jul 1, 2016 07/1/16

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 ...

Tmux support arrives for Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

Rich Turner June 8, 2016 Jun 8, 2016 06/8/16

In Windows 10 build 14361, available now to Windows Insiders fast-ring users, we've added Pseudo Terminal support to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which, along with improvements to Windows Console's much improved support for rendering VT control sequences, enables Tmux support to light-up your console! For those not familiar with it, ...

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Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated

24-bit Color in the Windows Console!

Hanselman takes a tour around Bash on Windows

Tmux support arrives for Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

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