This is the first of a series of posts in which we’ll explore all things command-line – from the origins of the command-line and the evolution of the terminal, to what we’re doing to overhaul and modernize the Windows Console & command-line in future Windows releases.
Be sure to read all three articles in the series.
Very good set of articles, thanks for posting the link 🙂
This is semi-related: The Digital Antiquarian has been doing a series of articles about MS, IBM, Apple, Windows, OS/2, and other things that lead up to Windows.
https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-1-ms-dos-and-its-d…
Glad to know Microsoft is working hard on what truly matters, aka combining emojis to make Ninja cats instead of fixing Windows Update (and by fixing I mean reducing the total update time, online and offline, which is completely unacceptable, so I can use the full performance of my hardware when I log in on Patch Tuesday). I find it weird that even a quad core hyperthreaded Alienware beast with an SSD takes so much time to run through a security update.
Those Windows tablets must be a pleasure to use on Patch Tuesday…
But hey! Ninja cats! Powershell! Linux subsystem! Windows has something for everyone except for its core audience (windows desktop app users) who are now apparently legacy people. Heck, most of us legacy people go for entire weeks without a Starbucks latte.
Sorry for the rant. I just hate it when wasting Unicode codepoints and making Unicode harder to implement consistently is now a “feature”, and this part of the article rubbed me off the wrong way.
Edited 2018-07-24 22:22 UTC
I agree. The whole emoji affair is ridiculous. The Unicode Consortium should close if this is the only thing it wastes time in.
yx & Subi – The Emoji Demo (NOVA 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr_l-KBDHS4