windows terminal

Windows can feel deceptively simple until the day you need to do something a little less ordinary — and that’s when a handful of built‑in and first‑party tools turn the OS from a consumer toy into a professional workstation. The five utilities highlighted in the recent How‑To Geek piece —...

Microsoft’s AI Shell drops an unmistakable hint about the company’s next move: take the AI copilot right where admins do their work and make the command line smart, conversational, and — crucially — able to act on what it creates. Background AI Shell is Microsoft’s new AI‑assisted command‑line...

Microsoft’s Windows Terminal has picked up a practical and widely requested set of enhancements in its latest preview release — from an acrylic title bar and refined text rendering options to much stronger pane-management commands and an optional minimize-to‑system‑tray behavior — changes that...

Windows 11 quietly ships a tiny UX Easter egg with outsized pedigree: the drop-down console that made PC gamers feel like 1990s hackers — the same mechanic that powered id Software’s Quake — is built right into the Windows Terminal as Quake Mode, summonable with a single keystroke and usable as...

Windows Terminal ships as a modern, highly configurable host for PowerShell, Command Prompt, WSL and other shells, but the out‑of‑the‑box layout and defaults seldom match what experienced users want — the Windows Central how‑to lists nine practical tweaks that I apply on every Windows 11 machine...

Microsoft’s engineering rhythm rarely produces big-bang surprises; instead, the company advances in a steady cadence of focused improvements across developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise modernization services — a pattern that’s visible in three recent pieces of...

Microsoft’s Windows Terminal Preview has taken another practical step forward with the 1.11 preview release, bringing a cluster of user-facing improvements—most notably the ability to minimize the app to the system tray, a refreshed Settings UI with unfocused appearance controls, expanded pane...

Microsoft has pushed a small maintenance flight to the Windows Insider Canary Channel today — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1371 (KB5073097) — delivering a handful of targeted fixes for Start, File Explorer, input settings, and an elevated Windows Terminal hang, while calling out one...

Canonical’s new Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview places a sandboxed, fast-moving Ubuntu build into the hands of WSL users so the community can test onboarding, Windows Terminal theming, and a new configuration tool before those features reach the store’s stable LTS images. Background Over the...

Microsoft has quietly restored a simple, native terminal text editor to Windows: Microsoft Edit — a compact, open‑source TUI (text user interface) editor you can run directly from Command Prompt, PowerShell, or Windows Terminal without switching to a GUI. The tool is designed for quick edits —...

Microsoft's modern terminal didn’t just replace an ugly old console window — for many power users it has rewritten the way they work on Windows, turning a handful of command-line utilities into true time-savers that change daily workflows. The How‑To Geek piece makes a persuasive case: five...

The Windows command line still hides a surprising number of productivity shortcuts and power tools behind a humble prompt — and the six utilities highlighted in the XDA piece form a practical starter pack for anyone ready to move beyond the mouse. The original roundup calls out winget, SDelete...

I gave my Windows Command Prompt the full “pimp my ride” treatment and the result is a Terminal that’s not only prettier, it’s considerably more useful — a far cry from the old monochrome CMD window and a clear reminder that the command line can be both productive and delightful. Background...

Windows Terminal’s right‑click behavior is one of those small UX switches that can either speed you through repetitive command‑line work or trip you into accidental pastes and misfired commands — and it’s now configurable both from the Terminal UI and from low‑level settings for power users who...

Windows 11 gives you multiple fast, reliable ways to bridge File Explorer and the command line so you can open a terminal in the folder you’re browsing, launch files from a shell, or open Explorer from an active terminal session. The built‑in “Open in Terminal” context menu and the File Explorer...

Splitting panes inside a single PowerShell window is one of those quietly powerful features that many Windows users — even frequent PowerShell users — either overlook or assume is only possible with terminal multiplexers like tmux; yet it's built into Windows Terminal and can be driven by...

Windows has had a secret many enthusiasts already know: the Windows Terminal isn’t just a shell host — it’s a gateway to a built‑in, scriptable app store powered by the Windows Package Manager, aka WinGet, that lets you search for, install, update and remove apps with a few typed commands. The...

I switched my primary development environment from Linux back to Windows — and the result was far less compromise and far more productivity than I expected, thanks to modern Windows tools like WSL2, Windows Terminal, PowerToys, and winget that finally blur the lines between the two ecosystems...

Maester arrived as a simple idea with a practical purpose: treat cloud configuration like code and test it continuously so Microsoft 365 and Entra administrators stop discovering broken security only after an incident exposes the gap. Background Cloud configuration drift is a persistent...

Configure Windows Terminal Profiles for PowerShell, WSL, and SSH Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 20 minutes Windows Terminal is a versatile hub for all your command-line needs. By configuring distinct profiles for PowerShell, WSL, and SSH, you can switch contexts in seconds without...