{"id":758695,"date":"2020-05-21T06:45:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=758695"},"modified":"2020-05-21T06:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:45:33","slug":"microsofts-romance-with-open-source-software-is-on-display-at-build-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=758695","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s romance with open source software is on display at Build 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An absolute ton of new announcements has been coming out of this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mybuild.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft Build<\/a> 2020 virtual conference for Windows developers. While cool, most of them are a little thin for individual reports\u2014so we&#8217;ll get you up to speed on them in this roundup, with links out to each topic if you&#8217;re interested in more.<\/p>\n<h2>Windows Terminal goes 1.0<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/screenshot-windows-terminal-settings-980x613-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n          Windows Terminal 1.0 settings are modified in a very Linux-y way\u2014by editing a big JSON-formatted text file, which pops up in Notepad when accessed from the Settings menu.                      [credit:<br \/>\n                        Jim Salter                        ]\n                  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Windows 10\u2014and Server 2019\u2014pack in more and better command-line functionality, one of the parts of the overall experience that began looking shabby by comparison is the terminal itself.<\/p>\n<p>Windows Terminal seeks to change that, and it&#8217;s just gone 1.0. The terminal itself is open source and is available for perusal and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/terminal\/\">hacking<\/a> at Github under the MIT <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/terminal\/blob\/master\/LICENSE\">license<\/a>. Microsoft&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/windows-terminal-1-0\/\">announcement<\/a>\u00a0makes a point of individually crediting 14 contributors by name and acknowledging hundreds more, which is a more-than-welcome sea change for those of us old enough to have lived through the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Halloween_documents\">Halloween Documents<\/a> era.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1677510#p3\">Read 24 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1677510&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=ntLgVH7LkKQ:GVWil6F7t6A:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=ntLgVH7LkKQ:GVWil6F7t6A:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=ntLgVH7LkKQ:GVWil6F7t6A:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=ntLgVH7LkKQ:GVWil6F7t6A:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1677510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft\u2019s romance with open source software is on display at Build 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An absolute ton of new announcements has been coming out of this week&#8217;s Microsoft Build 2020 virtual conference for Windows developers. 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