{"id":268733,"date":"2018-07-18T08:25:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T06:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=268733"},"modified":"2018-07-18T08:29:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T06:29:01","slug":"microsoft-is-upgrading-the-windows-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/268733-microsoft-is-upgrading-the-windows-command-line.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is upgrading the Windows command line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is improving the Windows command-line environment, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2018\/07\/microsoft-is-making-the-windows-command-line-a-lot-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ars Technica<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that Microsoft previously upgraded the Windows console for users, and more work is set to be done by the company.<\/p>\n<p>An improved console is being built, which will provide a better experience for users. The\u00a0command-line programs, however, are not being changed.<\/p>\n<p>The latest\u00a0Windows 10 Insider builds are reported to feature the improvements, with a &#8220;big reveal of the new API coming soon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is set to include\u00a0effective tabbed consoles, emoji support, rich Unicode, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has also <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/commandline\/2018\/06\/20\/windows-command-line-backgrounder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>published a blog<\/strong><\/a> on the history of the command line and its use, for those interested in its origins.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/268721-google-cloud-goes-down.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google cloud goes down<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is improving the Windows command-line environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":174478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[52489,123,807],"class_list":["post-268733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-command-line","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268737,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268733\/revisions\/268737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}