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    The new Windows Terminal

    Windows Developer

    2 HN recommenders · recommended in 6 months, 2019–2025

    YouTube

    0:45 · 2.9M views · May 6, 2019

    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.

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

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    8 comments from Hacker News

    1. @gschizasNov 2025· in “State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions”

      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: this video :) EDIT: I love the easter egg with the names of the developers across the Windows timeline :)

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @ktpsnsJun 2019· in “New Windows Terminal Preview”

      this 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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    3. @spudlyoMay 2019· in “Both Windows 10 and Chrome OS are embracing the Linux kernel”

      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]: this video

      CriticalView on HN
    4. @rndgermandudeMay 2019· in “Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API”

      They just announced Windows Terminal and even spent time and money on a marketing video for this yet unreleased product: this 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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    5. @CodeIsTheEndFeb 2023· in “Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos”

      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. this video

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