>> Today I have with me Christopher,
to talk about Windows Terminal and learn more about
all the new feature included in that new release coming up.
[MUSIC] Hi, Christopher.
>> Hey, Frank.
>> Windows Terminal, a new update,
does it mean that Windows Terminal is here to
replace the CMD Camon?
>> No, actually. That's a very common question.
Command prompt, the Windows Terminal,
they actually work hand-in-hand together.
If you see my screen over here,
I have Command Prompt in Windows Terminal.
The big misconception is that Command Prompt is going to replace,
sorry, Windows Terminal is going to replace Command Prompt,
but that's not the case.
They're here to work together.
Let's take a step back.
Here around the screen we see
the Terminal app and Command Prompt inside the Terminal app.
Terminal is a host application for command-line shells,
which means I can host
things like Command Prompt there and
it's Terminal's job to listen to
commands and texts that users sense or
types and sends it to the Command Prompt,
which then like a reads and it
executes and sends it back to the terminal display.
I do DIR here,
terminal sense it, Command Prompt reads, and then displays it.
>> With a nice background.
>> Yes, so that's one of the cool things about Windows Terminal.
Because we're host application,
we can do things that Command Prompt can't like do tabs,
we can do split paints,
and also color customizations.
If you look here on my other tab,
I have this awesome looking split plane setup
with the PowerShell here,
Linux, but to here via WSO and Command Prompt.
I like to change my background just to make it look
more cooler and also helps me
distinguish between all these different shells I'm using.
>> I love it. Well,
what is that new release coming up?
>> This month on January 2023,
we have a new release,
Windows Terminal Preview 1.17.
Actually it's a big release, so it has a lot of features.
I think the one thing I want to
call out that's of interest and the show is
that a lot of the big features
are actually community-contributed features.
Things like drop-down menu customization
and connection restart to name a few.
All features made my community members.
>> I want to make a pause here
because I think it's really important.
When you say community members,
you don't mean Microsoft employees, right?
>> Yeah, I'm talking
about developers from the open source community.
Let me open up my GitHub repo and show you.
>> Okay.
>> Here is the Microsoft Windows Terminal GitHub repo.
As you can see here,
we have like 1.5 k issues and 44+.
We look at the issues here.
You can see that a lot of these issues
are submitted by the community members.
Not necessarily also bugs and things like that,
but also feature of plus too.
A lot of these users,
they're actually not Microsoft employees,
they're actually community members and they help
us push out terminal features and terminal release.
Actually one of them I want to call out
or give a shout out to one community member.
His name is Jay for James,
and actually he's done so much for Windows Terminal community.
The cool thing is some of his contributions
actually go back to Windows, the OS itself.
By contributing the Windows Terminal,
not only is he like, you know,
helping us make a better product but
also Microsoft Windows is a better product too.
>> I love that. You're being a contributor,
you contribute to a project,
and that project and is really got feature is really
going into that product and then also into Windows.
That's an amazing story. That's pretty incredible.
>> It's a really cool report that.
>> I love it. What's again,
that version you're singing when can we get it?
Where we can we get it?
>> The new release preview 1.17,
you can get it via the terminal preview version,
via the Microsoft Store.
When to get, or if you want to
actually look at the code yourself,
you can access via builds on our GitHub repo.
>> Perfect, you know what,
you have so many things to share with us and we learned
today that difference between the shell and the terminal.
I will make you come back to the show again and
explain more about Windows Terminal.
>> Awesome. Big other,
little bit nervous, but I'm glad to be here, Frank.
>> It will be awesome. Thank you.