microsoft/terminal

This repository holds the source code for Microsoft's command-line apps on Windows. A terminal is the text-based window where developers and power users type commands instead of clicking buttons, for many years Windows shipped only a fairly basic console window, and this project is the modern replacement. The repository contains Windows Terminal (the new app), Windows Terminal Preview (an earlier-access channel), the original Windows console host known as conhost.exe, components shared between the two, a small utility called ColorTool, and sample projects that show how to consume the Windows Console programming interfaces. The README describes Windows Terminal as a modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users, listing tabs, rich text, and globalization among the frequently requested features it adds before the excerpt is cut off. The old console host stays in the same codebase so that existing Windows command-line tools and scripts continue to work unchanged. Someone would land here either to install Windows Terminal or to read and contribute to the code. The recommended way to install is through the Microsoft Store, which keeps the app updated automatically, releases are also available directly from GitHub as msixbundle files, through the winget package manager, and through community packages on Chocolatey and Scoop. A nightly build called Canary is offered for trying features before they reach the regular release. The code is written in C++ and targets Windows 10 build 19041 or later.