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Windows Terminal 2.0 will have Quake mode and more
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Kayla Cinnamon, the Program Manager at Microsoft, announced in acheerful tweetthat she and her team published the roadmap for Windows Terminal.
The schedule includes every step until the final push to Windows Terminal 2.0 for general public programmed for2021-05-31.
Windows Terminal 1.0was launched in May, during theMicrosoft Build 2020event and it’sa terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL.
Many commenters say that Windows Terminal, together with Windows Power Shell will sign the retirement papers forCommand Promptbut nothing is written in stone yet.
Windows Terminal roadmap
TheGithub documentdetails much of the updating procedures and roadmap until the next year’s spring:
The Windows Terminal project is engineered and delivered as a set of 4-week milestones. New features will go into Windows Terminal Preview first, then a month after they been in Preview, those features will move into Windows Terminal.
So, every month we will see a preview and a final version for the Terminal.
New Windows Terminal features and priorities
The Microsoft Team even laid down a list of features (they call them Scenarios) that either fix some issues with the current Windows Terminal 1.0.
Of course, every such scenario comes along with priority grades from 0 to 3, 0 being the most urgent.
The most commented and awaited feature on Twitter seemed to be theQuake mode. No, Windows Terminal is not going to run Quake (unfortunately).
The Quake mode is actually providing a quick launch terminal that appears and disappears when you press a hotkey.
Other interesting new features described by Microsoft include:
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Claudiu Andone
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Claudiu Andone
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Oldtimer in the tech and science press, with 14 years of experience in writing on everything there is to know about science, technology, and Microsoft
