


SEE: Windows 10 Start menu hacks (TechRepublic Premium) Must-read Windows coverageĭefend your network with Microsoft outside-in security servicesĪ year later, and Windows Terminal has moved out of beta into general release. Not only that, but with the increasing popularity of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and a new focus on Windows as a developer platform, an improved terminal was now essential. After all, the old terminal client and the whole Windows command-line tooling was showing its age, compared to other widely available tools. I sat in a hotel room in Seattle, with a copy of Visual Studio compiling up the first release ready to see what a modern Windows terminal would be like.

Microsoft open-sourced its Terminal client at its 2019 Build event.
