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Jan 9, 2017

Bash in Windows Insider build 15002 – many fixes but a couple of bugs!

Rich Turner

[Update 2017-02-07] Note that both of the two issues noted below have been fixed in more recent Insider builds Windows Insider build #15002 started shipping to Windows Insider Fast Ring users today, January 9th 2017. As is often the case in software development, after many teams have been beavering-away on their features for several months, thing...

Jan 4, 2017

Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Rich Turner

This post is in response to a story published on December 6th 2016 by ComputerWorld titled "Say goodbye to the MS-DOS command prompt" and its follow-up article "Follow-up: MS-DOS lives on after all". These "stories" were subsequently picked up by Business Insider and Life Hacker among others and fueled a number of concerned Tweets some of which I ...