This is a big release for the Terminal - with two major features finally landing:
* Support for setting the Windows Terminal as the _default_ terminal on Windows. When that's all set up, commandline applications will launch directly into the Terminal instead of into the vintage console (conhost.exe)
* Support for "quake mode", or just activating the window with a global hotkey. This one's been consistently the highest-requested feature on the Terminal issue tracker, so it's really satisfying to see it finally ship. At first I thought it was a bit of a silly idea, but after using it for a while, I can't believe I ever lived without it.
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* Support for "quake mode", or just activating the window with a global hotkey. This one's been consistently the highest-requested feature on the Terminal issue tracker, so it's really satisfying to see it finally ship. At first I thought it was a bit of a silly idea, but after using it for a while, I can't believe I ever lived without it.
It would be equally great if Microsoft could tell us where and when PowerShell 7 will become the default PowerShell in Windows.
Just had a look at the Future milestone for PowerShell and with 272 open issues, it's not likely to see PowerShell 7 as default anytime soon.
One of the open issues from 2019 about ease of install would be great to have fixed:
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/8663