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Windows 10 Gets Core Console Host Enhancements (nivot.org)
x0n writes: As of Windows 10 TH2 (10.0.1058), the core console subsystem has support for a large number of ANSI and VT100 escape sequences. This is likely to prepare for full Open SSH server/client integration, which is already underway over on github. It looks like xterm is finally coming to Windows. OpenSSH was previously announced (last year) by the very forward-looking PowerShell team. The linked article provides some context, and explains that the console host isn't the same as either cmd.exe or powershell.exe, but there is a lot of overlap in functionality.
So let me get this straight. Windows is getting the kind of terminal support *nix has had for nearly 50 years? Wow, I mean, how fucking innovative of MS.
Fuck fuck fuck.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I'd like to see stuff like figlet, write, wall, mutt natively in powershell so it becomes more of a destination than a mere dull workhorse of productivity.
Be patient - they have to get the keylogger working correctly first.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Sycraft-fu says that you are an idiotic, paranoid, conspiracy theorist for daring to state that Windows 10 contains spyware.
I've done a lot of neat stuff with powershell, for example I created a powershell script that gathered information about one system (using the Get-WmiObject Win32_SystemEnclosure to retrieve i.e. a computer's brand name, serial number, bios version, etc) and opened a TCP socket to feed that information to another system across the network that had a listening server which was also written in powershell.
You work for Microsoft on Windows 10 then?