At Build 2016, Microsoft showcased something almost unbelievable, the Linux Bash shell running natively on the Windows 10 operating system, using Ubuntu binaries. Kevin Gallo, director of the Windows ...

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 was released nearly 3 years ago. This brought the ability to run the Bash shell and run Linux binary executables that you’d be able to run on Ubuntu Linux.

Windows Terminal is a modern replacement for the classic PowerShell and Command Prompt consoles, offering features that significantly enhance the command-line experience. Unlike the standard ...

Linux Bash shell came to Windows 10 recently as part of the latest Windows Insider preview build. Immediately, people began to experiment, some to see how well the shell was implemented, while others ...

Amid the Build news this week, some quiet open source tools bombshells were dropped by Microsoft. For instance, Microsoft this week introduced Windows Terminal, an open source command-line console for ...

News about Microsoft's new Windows Terminal app with tabs got rightly overshadowed by its Linux kernel for Windows 10, which will allow Linux apps to to be run by a Microsoft-made Linux kernel rather ...

At Build 2020 today, Microsoft gave developers a slew of new tools to coax them into using Windows over macOS or Linux. Windows Terminal is now out of preview for enterprises, and Windows Subsystem ...

Microsoft's latest preview of the command line tool Windows Terminal, version 1.3, is now available for developers to test. As of June, Microsoft is releasing Windows Terminal as a more stable release ...

Windows Terminal is an important tool for supporting command-line applications like Command Prompt and Windows PowerShell. It backs up all global data to a file named settings.json. While this is the ...