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• Windows Terminal arrives?

  Posted on February 26, 2024 at 02:42 CST by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  WINDOWS 11

  

  By Will Fastie

  Microsoft’s Windows Terminal is not a new thing, but it arrived by stealth in Windows 11. It’s quite a change.

  Windows Terminal is a replacement for the Windows Console that can run any command-line-interface (CLI) app within a tabbed interface. It was developed for Windows 10 and has been around since 2019, but it has suddenly appeared in Windows — apparently with no warning.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.09.0, 2024-02-26).

  Windows 11 Cascadia, CLI, Command Prompt, Consolas, JetBrains Mono, KB5026435, Newsletters, PowerShell, Windows Consoles, Windows Terminal

• Why PowerShell?

  Posted on July 17, 2023 at 02:45 CDT by Bruce Kriebel • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.29 • 2023-07-17

  WINDOWS

  

  By Bruce Kriebel

  For nearly 50 years, we’ve all been using the commands that originated from MS-DOS command line interpreter (CLI).

  This wasn’t a bad thing. Even when Windows came along, Microsoft provided a means to get to the CLI (the program cmd.exe) and continued to flesh out its capabilities. I’ll bet nearly everyone reading this has written a simple batch file using those commands.

  But there’s a better alternative.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.29.0, 2023-07-17).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Windows CLI, Newsletters, PowerShell, PowerShell 7, PowerShell Core, Scripting, Windows