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The new Windows Terminal

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What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “I still watch this video from time to time”

    Commenter loves the video and its developer easter egg.

    gschizas, 2025-11 · Strong recommendation · in “State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions”

  2. “this advertisting video is super cool and nerdy.”

    Nerdy, cool advertising video for the new terminal.

    ktpsns, 2019-06 · Recommendation · in “New Windows Terminal Preview”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: windows terminal, microsoft, wsl, powershell, product announcement

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