Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal is a command line interpreter that serves as a modern replacement for the legacy Windows Console infrastructure.

It is capable of running any command-line app in separate tabs. It is preconfigured to run Command Prompt, PowerShell, WSL, SSH, and Azure Cloud Shell Connector, unifying all of the previously seperate command-line apps under one single app.

It comes with its own rendering back-end. Starting with version 1.11 on Windows 11, command-line apps can run on Windows Terminal instead of the Windows Console.

It was initially released in May 2019.

History
Windows Terminal was announced at Microsoft's Build 2019 developer conference in May 2019 as a modern alternative for Windows Console, and Windows Terminal's source code first appeared on GitHub on May 3, 2019. The first preview release was version 0.2, which appeared on July 10, 2019. The first stable version of the project (version 1.0) was on May 19, 2020, at which point, Microsoft started releasing preview versions as the Windows Terminal Preview app, which could be installed side-by-side with the stable version.