Make major improvements to the Windows Console.The developer community was particularly vociferous in its requests that Microsoft: Later, Microsoft also started on Windows Subsystem for Linux to enable running of Linux binaries side by side on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019, without need of recompiling them or without need of dual boot setup.Įarly in Windows 10’s development, Microsoft opened up a UserVoice page, asking the community what features they wanted in various areas of the OS. In 2006, Microsoft released Windows PowerShell, which was relatively modern object based command line tool, compatible with. Later, Windows NT’s “Command Prompt” (cmd.exe) was created to enable users to run the batch scripts and other several commands through command line interface. The MS-DOS () was a relatively simple command line tool. Below part is summary from those articles, which I thought was more relevant to the topic. If you want to read complete history and reasoning about why Windows Terminal project was started and why it was required, I would suggest to go through the 5 part blog series by Rich Turner. You can create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcut key bindings. In addition, it also has support for customizing the look and feel of the terminal. It also supports unicode encoding.īeing a modern terminal, it also supports GPU accelerated text rendering engine. This is like a command prompt, but a modern command prompt. What is Windows Terminal ?Īs per documentation, Windows Terminal is a modern terminal application for the users who use the command line tools like Command Prompt, PowerShell and WSL. In this article, let’s see what this Windows Terminal is, why would somebody use it and how to install / customize it. Well, for those who were unaware, there is a brand new Windows Terminal released recently. You might have used the windows command prompt a lot of times.
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