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So the main differentiator is a prettier terminal window relative to microsoft console?

And apparently being able to add new features without "breaking the world"

But even their own example was UI related, I wonder if this is just a way for them to fork "window console" to allow modern UI.

Raymond Chen had a good explanation for why the've been very hesitant to modernise cmd.exe but I can't seem to find it.

I'm interested in case you or someone else finds it. :)

Saying "shipping a new command shell". Unfortunately the URL gives me a 403.

Is it me or does that last bit seem weirdly passive aggressive

The last part of my comment? :O surely wasn't intentional if do :)

They probably meant the last line of the post you linked.

> So good luck with your replacement command shell. I hope you figure out how to run batch files.

Yep, seems passive aggressive

Yup, that makes more sense :)

>Saying "shipping a new command shell". Unfortunately the URL gives me a 403.

The article is at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050909-24/?p=34... but the link is specifically to a comment that isn't preserved. At any rate it was probably just a comment where someone asked why MS can't ship a new command shell.