Copying text to clipboard in HTML and RTF format.

Microsoft Narrator compatibility via a User Interface Automation (UIA) tree.

fullscreen mode, focus mode, always on top mode)

Themes, background images and tab color settings.

Modern font and font feature support (see below).

Hardware-accelerated text rendering via DirectWrite.

UTF-8 and UTF-16 (including CJK ideograms and emojis).

Notebook tabs, to hold multiple instances in a single window.

Terminal augments the text-based command experience by providing support for: It can natively connect to Azure Cloud Shell. It has out-of-the-box support for Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Bash on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

It can run multiple command-line apps, including text-based shells in a multi-tabbed window.

The first stable version of the project (version 1.0) was on May 19, 2020, at which point, Microsoft started releasing preview versions as the Windows Terminal Preview app, which could be installed side-by-side with the stable version. The first preview release was version 0.2, which appeared on July 10, 2019. Windows Terminal was announced at Microsoft's Build 2019 developer conference in May 2019 as a modern alternative for Windows Console, and Windows Terminal's source code first appeared on GitHub on May 3, 2019.

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