Feb 13: The v0.9 release of the Windows Terminal has arrived! This is the last version of the Terminal that will include new features before the v1 release.

Mar 17: Welcome to the v0.10 release of the Windows Terminal!

Ooooh, of course this is .ten after .nine. I saw it and thought "0.10? they're only up to a point one release? they've been working on this for ages!"

yes but the plan sounded like v0.9 to v1.0

The plan is no new _features_ until 1.0. There was a good backlog of _bug_ fixes that were made since 0.9, so it made sense to push out an update with those, while continuing to work towards the eventual 1.0 release.

Microsoft had to catch up sometime?

Finally a great terminal (although still bare bones) for Windows! Just 20 years late... we wanted that back in 2000. Instead if we had to use Windows, we got CMD.EXE that could easily resize vertically and not horizontally.

I would say 40 years late, but our point is the same!

Bah. Terminal emulators are ancient hacks that should have died out long ago. Microsoft is just doing this to accommodate the Linux ecosystem that still thinks a teletype is a good idea.

Actually, the Microsoft people are doing this to satisfy a request from Windows software developers and users that was so prevalent that even I had a Frequently Given Answer about it back in 2000.

The die-hard fans here will kill you if you're anything less than ecstatic about the astronomical distance MS is ahead of its time with this. Being only about 40 years late with a pre-1.0 version is extremely progressive for µsoft.