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The new Windows Terminal

Windows Developer · 2.9M views · 2019-05-06 · 0:45

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2019–2025

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gschizas · 2025-11 · Strong recommendation

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 · Recommendation

[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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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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