THE VIDEO SHELF · windows terminal
The new Windows Terminal
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 HN readers recommended it
Mentioned for its unusually polished, nerdy trailer style, and as an example of a good developer tool announcement.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Windows Developer
- Topic
- windows terminal
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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In the test, Windows Terminal (weirdly written as "terminal.exe") comes up as #4 in the scoring table. As to the "love" question, I still watch this video from time to time: [VIDEO] :) EDIT: I love the easter egg with the names of the developers …
gschizas on Hacker News · 2025-11
In State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions[VIDEO] -- this advertisting video is super cool and nerdy. Who could have thought someone could win a prize with a terminal in the 1990s, when everybody tried to get rid of terminals as hard as they could? I wish we could have a modern …
ktpsns on Hacker News · 2019-06
In New Windows Terminal Preview
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.