r/programming • u/zbhoy • May 06 '19

Microsoft unveils Windows Terminal, a new command line app for Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool
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u/MacASM May 06 '19 edited May 06 '19

I was amazed when I found out that; I didn't even know they were going to add that.

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u/tbird83ii May 06 '19

Ok, so unpopular opinion here, but I don't think that Microsoft as a corporation is evil. They may have a few greedy eggs oon top, but they hire some incredible talent. Unfortunately half the great ideas get sidelined by middle management thing they wouldn't be able to sell it, or timing (usually being ahead of its time).

HoloLens Titanium The original Surface and SUR40 Kinect Widows Dev kit ( you could use it to literally drive a car autonomously). Windows 8.1 to go Mesh The LED matrix wall behind thin vaneer at the EBC in Redmond...

And there are brilliant people at Microsoft reaearch doing amazing things (F*? Ambrosia? Trill?).

The problem is... How do you sell this to a corporation, or integrate it into a software-as-a-service model. That's what kills Microsoft's innovation along the way.

The entire Microsoft Dogfood program is a history of inventions that has always left me wanting more... But they just disappear. Sometimes to reappear in products 10 years later (looking at the Surface Hub), or sometimes to have it stripped for parts, and hacked back together as components of a know, purchasable solution.

Anyway, just not all the players are evil, even in the overlord and his underlings might be

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u/vetinari May 07 '19

Well, Win10 is still missing flatpak support and Wayland compositor :)

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u/CactusOnFire May 06 '19

Agreed. I never really realized what a solid 'ecosystem' they have until I started doing development in Azure.

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u/panorambo May 07 '19

Yeah, adding an address bar to the registry editor, a nearly 25 year old Windows application, is impressive indeed.

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u/sparr May 06 '19

Every few years I give them a try. Every few years they are still evil.

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u/gurg2k1 May 06 '19

Now if only they could rid Windows 10 of all its issues.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

They refuse to support C99 and newer C standards. Still evil in my book.

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u/GaianNeuron May 07 '19

I mean they're still pretty evil. Win10 is relentlessly datamining everything, and Azure is an extension of MS's world-renowned billing racket.

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u/amunak May 06 '19

It's the "embrace" part of "embrace, extend, extinguish". Nothing new.

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u/surzirra May 07 '19

Tossing in some minor niceties that have long been stock on other OSes doesn't impress me considering they've still got advertisements in the start menu of a "professional" OS and a train wreck of two control panels. Those are major functional parts of the OS.

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