Microsoft’s open source ‘Windows Terminal’ app reaches stable release

Windows Terminal is now available for enterprise use.

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What you need to know

Last year, Microsoft announced that it was working on an open-source terminal app for Windows 10 with support for multiple command line executables, including PowerShell, Windows Subsystem for Linux, and Azure Cloud Shell. Today, Microsoft is announcing that Windows Terminal is now ready for enterprise use with its 1.0 release.

Windows Terminal is available today from both theMicrosoft StoreandGitHub.Unlike the traditional Command Prompt and PowerShell, Windows Terminal is a modern app with unicode and UTF-8 character support, GPU accelerated text rendering, custom themes, and can run Linux GUI apps directly.

Alongside the release of Windows Terminal is a newWindows Package Managerfor developers that will make it easy for developers to set up their work environments with a command line interface like Windows Terminal. The Windows Package manager will let developers use scripts to install tools quickly and easily from an open-source repository hosted on GitHub.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is also getting some updates, including the following:

What are your thoughts on Windows Terminal for Windows 10? Let us know in the comments.

The Windows Terminal is a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL.

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