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Windows Terminal Microsoft Store Preview Release

June 21, 2019 Jun 21, 2019 06/21/19

Kayla Cinnamon

The Windows Terminal preview is now in the Microsoft Store! (image) The Windows Terminal is the new, powerful, open source terminal application that was announced at Build 2019. Its main features include multiple tabs, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations...

Windows Terminal Build 2019 FAQ

May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 05/20/19

Kayla Cinnamon

Last week, Microsoft held its Build 2019 conference at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Build is a large event with several thousand people from around the world attending to learn all about the current, newest, and future developer-oriented tech coming from Microsoft. We had the pleasure of meeting so many of you at our ...

Introducing Windows Terminal

May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 05/6/19

Kayla Cinnamon

We are beyond excited to announce Windows Terminal! Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. https://aka.ms/terminal-video Windows Terminal will be delivered via the Microsoft Store in Windows 10 and ...

Windows Command-Line: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY)

August 2, 2018 Aug 2, 2018 08/2/18

Rich Turner

In this, the fourth post in the Windows Command-Line series, we'll discuss the new Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY) infrastructure and API - why we built it, what it's for, how it works, how to use it, and more.

Windows Command-Line: Inside the Windows Console

July 20, 2018 Jul 20, 2018 07/20/18

Rich Turner

Welcome to the third post in the Windows Command-Line series. In this post, we'll start to dig into the internals of the Windows Console and Command-Line, what it is, what it does ... and what it doesn't do!

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.

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