


That allows it fit right in with Windows 11’s overall design aesthetic. In Windows 11, it is powered by Microsoft’s Mica material which produces a gorgeous see-through transparency effect rendering the entire terminal background translucent. Windows Terminal is a modernized command line experience, launched in 2019, that has all the bells and whistles you expect from a modern terminal. Instead, it allows you to group multiple shells (i.e. Although the interface is new, it doesn’t replace any existing shell. Microsoft has never officially made strides to replace Console Host with Terminal until now. Windows Terminal is a brand-new interface Microsoft has released early this year. In Windows 11, you can already set the Windows Terminal as the default for the command line but moving forward, this would become the actual default out-the-box. Starting in 2022, Microsoft is moving away from Windows Console Host and shifting to the Windows Terminal. Therefore, the default command line experience was tied to Windows Console Host as PowerShell and Command Prompt, and other terminals, would always open inside it. Since the dawn of time, the default terminal emulator in Windows has been the Windows Console Host ( conhost.exe).
