Editor’s note: After this article was published, Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that cmd.exe will not be going away after all. Read Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ follow-up column. My very first ...

Windows Package Manager is a utility that lets you install Windows applications from a command prompt, much the way you can with most Linux distributions.

Microsoft is replacing the Windows Console Host with Windows Terminal, making Terminal the default command line experience in Windows 11, sometime in 2022.

Microsoft releases open-source Windows Package Manager in preview, but Microsoft Store isn't going anywhere.