[gianbasagre]

What they should do next: A developer-friendly command prompt/terminal

[tedunangst]

It's called powershell.

[encoderer]

No, not really.

You cannot natively SSH from powershell. You need PuTTY. And Pageant. And... ugh....

A developer friendly terminal is definitely necessary.

[tedunangst]

Ok, so what we're really saying is, I want a vt100 emulator.

[encoderer]

What I'm really saying is I want a terminal, in which I can run whatever shell I want.

See also: Unix, Linux, OSX, etc, etc, etc.

[tedunangst]

Oh, that's easy. Start a cmd.exe terminal. Run bash (or whatever). Now you're running the shell of your choice in the cmd terminal.

[encoderer]

Do you really find cmd.exe to be as good as OSX Terminal, or iTerm2, or the default Terminal on Ubuntu, or ??

I've used PS on Windows 7, not on Windows 8. So I'm sure it received an upgrade. I did like being able to essentially pipe objects from one script to another. But none of these apps are as flexible and powerful as the OSX and Ubuntu examples I mentioned earlier.

I'm really not one for internet debates, if you feel this protective of an under-featured and clunky terminal app then ok, good for you. You can have the last word. But the GP that you replied to originally was correct and your random half-answers are really missing the point.

[recursive]

Most developers using VS don't have any need to use SSH.

[drivebyacct2]

Install Git Bash and/or msys. It's really not that bad. I fired my mouth off about PowerShell before learning more about it. PowerShell in Windows 8 does come with powerful remote conenction abilities and if you grok what PS is, it's better in many ways than it's unix (bash, zsh) brethren.