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It's still mostly true. In the last few years they've modernized it towards an 80's terminal, but it still falls short in areas.


It's on-par with the terminals available on Linux...

Midnight Commander, htop, applications that make extensive use of VT command sequences all work fine.


No, the legacy console is still quite crippled, unicode and tabs just two examples. This new terminal and conpty are promising but have yet to be introduced unless you compile it yourself.




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