That's it! Search for 'Terminal' in your search bar and 'Windows Terminal Preview' should show up. So for me it would be `Add-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsTerminalPreview_1.7.572.0_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle`Ĥ. Type `Add-AppxPackage` (space) `the full file-name you downloaded`. Open a Powershell window in the directory where you download the file.ģ. Go () and download the `.msixbundle` from the latest release.Ģ. If you don't want to use Chocolatey, you can grab the release directly from Github.ġ. `choco install microsoft-windows-terminal -y` Microsoft Windows Terminal has been packaged in Chocolatey in the package (). () is a very versatile package manager, similar in some ways to `apt-get` in linux, or `npm` in the world of node.js. Unfortunately this is the only way to get regular updates for it, but updating it isn't so bad with this method. This sucks, as you have to have to login with a Microsoft account to download it. (Now you see why you haven't heard about it). The 'official' way to download it is through the Microsoft Store on Windows 10.

It's just owned by Microsoft so they make it as hard as possible for people to install it.Īnyway the first thing you want to do is get the damn thing. Well - it's perfectly usable and gets regular updates.

So you've probably seen () trailer and wondered what happened to the fancy new terminal. If you aren't afraid to log into your Microsoft account, just install it from the Microsoft store () instead. # Installing Windows Terminal Without The Microsoft Store

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