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The new Windows Terminal

The new Windows Terminal

Windows Developer
2 HN recommenders · discussed 2019–2025
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About this video

Microsoft's short announcement video for the new Windows Terminal, a modern terminal app for Command Prompt, PowerShell and WSL. It is a stylized trailer for the unreleased project.

Why it appears in the archive

Mentioned for its unusually polished, nerdy trailer style, and as an example of a good developer tool announcement.

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gschizas · 2025-11 · strong rec

In the test, Windows Terminal (weirdly written as "terminal.exe") comes up as #4 in the scoring table. As to the "love" question, I still watch this video from time to time: [VIDEO] :) EDIT: I love the easter egg with the names of the developers across the Windows timeline :)

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ktpsns · 2019-06 · rec

[VIDEO] -- this advertisting video is super cool and nerdy. Who could have thought someone could win a prize with a terminal in the 1990s, when everybody tried to get rid of terminals as hard as they could? I wish we could have a modern feature rich terminal with real blurring background and powerful features on X11/Xorg/Qt/Gtk/"the linux world". Konsole (KDE) is amongst the best I know so far.

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madspindel · 2019-05 · reference

What I also find interesting is that in the announcement video of Windows Terminal (0:20) you can see the command "wt install", which sounds like a possible future package manager? [VIDEO]

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rndgermandude · 2019-05 · reference

They just announced Windows Terminal and even spent time and money on a marketing video for this yet unreleased product: [VIDEO] Granted, conhost will stay for compatibility reasons and this is a new thing. But it's open source: [LINK] . And according to the readme contains the source for conhost.exe too.

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DuskStar · 2019-10 · reference

Has anyone tried the new official terminal? [0]/[1] It looks rather interesting, if still in prerelease. (also, there's a trailer for it on YouTube - so weird [2]) 0: [LINK] 1: [LINK] 2: [VIDEO]

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Kipters · 2019-12 · reference

It's faster and works better than old conhost.exe they're also planning to overhaul it with more modern features judging from its trailer[0] (yes, this terminal has a fancy 3D trailer) [0]: [VIDEO]

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CodeIsTheEnd · 2023-02 · reference

I wish there were an option to export a video like the example on the homepage (with some ability to control the camera path). I'd love to be able to use it to make a promotional video for a developer tool similar to the announcement video for the Windows Terminal. [VIDEO]

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spudlyo · 2019-05 · critical

This is just an attempt by Microsoft to stem the flow of power users to Linux Desktop. Did you see the flash video advertisement[0] Microsoft made for their new terminal? To me it feels more like Microsoft is trying to attract people fleeing from macOS because of all their recent mis-steps with the MBP. [0]: [VIDEO]

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