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Jan 20, 2026
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PowerToys 0.97 is here: a big Command Palette update and a new mouse utility

Niels Laute
Niels Laute

PowerToys 0.97 is here! This release packs in a ton of improvements to Command Palette, introduces a brand-new mouse utility called CursorWrap, expands CLI support across several utilities, and includes plenty of other refinements. Get the update by checking for updates in PowerToys or heading to the release page heading to the release page. Let'...

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Aug 26, 2025
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.24 Release

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

We’re back with another Terminal release for you! This development cycle, we focused on overall quality of life improvements and bug fixes. We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.23, which will include all of the features from this previous blog post. Some notable features to call out are: 🌟 A completely new and more reliable w...

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May 21, 2024
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WinGet.CommandNotFound

Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen

We are pleased to announce the release of ! This PowerShell module is a feedback provider plugin for PowerShell that leverages the Windows Package Manager to provide suggestions for packages to install when a native command cannot be found. The command-line predictor feature in PowerShell enables this module to display WinGet packages as predictive...

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May 25, 2023
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WinGet configuration Preview

Demitrius Nelon
Demitrius Nelon

The Windows Package Manager team has been working on several things we're sure you will be very excited about. If you've been following the WinGet blogs, you're already familiar with package management on Windows. We've got some goodies in store for you like package pinning, our new PowerShell module, and running WinGet in the system context. We'v...

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Jan 23, 2023
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Windows Package Manager 1.4

Demitrius Nelon
Demitrius Nelon

The Windows Package Manager team has been busy working on WinGet 1.4. This release introduces support for .zip-based packages. WinGet can now extract and run an installer inside of a .zip archive or install one or more portable packages from an archive. The WinGet open-source community has also been busy adding new features like command aliases to ...

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Oct 18, 2022
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Windows Terminal is now the Default in Windows 11

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

The day has finally come! Windows Terminal is now the default command line experience on Windows 11 22H2! 🎉 This means that all command line applications will now automatically open in Windows Terminal. This blog post will go into how this setting is enabled, the journey of Windows Terminal along with its fan-favorite features, as well as give a hu...

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Sep 13, 2022
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.16 Release

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

The Windows Terminal team is back with another release for you! This release introduces version 1.16 to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows Terminal to version 1.15 with these new features. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store, from the GitHub releases page, or by using winget. H...

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Aug 3, 2022
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Windows Package Manager 1.3

Demitrius Nelon
Demitrius Nelon

Today I get to announce Windows Package Manager 1.3 has been released. The team has been adding several enhancements to manifests to improve your package installation experience. We’ve enabled better package version reporting. A new setting allows verbose logs to be on by default. If you run the system architecture is now displayed. The progress b...

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Jul 6, 2022
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.15 Release

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

Welcome back to another Windows Terminal release! This release updates Windows Terminal to version 1.14 and includes all of the features from this previous blog post. Additionally, Windows Terminal Preview is getting an update to version 1.15 and will include all the features detailed here. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows Te...

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May 24, 2022
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.14 Release

Kayla Cinnamon
Kayla Cinnamon

It's Microsoft Build! We have a Windows Terminal Preview release for you focused on fixing bugs and improving quality. This release also migrates Windows Terminal to version 1.13, which contains the new features defined in this previous blog post. As always, you can install Windows Terminal Preview and Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or f...

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