How to download the new Windows Terminal

Introduction to the Windows Terminal

The Windows Terminal is a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations. This is an open source project and we welcome community participation. To participate please visit https://github.com/microsoft/terminal.

The Windows Terminal can be downloaded from the following address:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701?rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab

Microsoft provides details about the new Windows Terminal in the following blog post

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-microsoft-store-preview-release/

Also an introductory video has been made available which summarizes the new look and feel and features of the Windows Terminal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE&feature=emb\_logo