I'm sure the Win Terminal team have their hands tied (well, I sure hope that is the reasons, let me put that way!) Windows users are not Apply users, and are not as forgiving. I guess MS want the application store to be the only legitimate source of applications (looking hungry and envious at Apple's business model), I guess it at some point make sense, but it's also a dangerous path. Well, I guess the only explanation for those so many non-reasonable choices in regards to installation and dependencies must be market-/political related.

Otherwise, I am happy with ConEmu which I have been using for many years. Make it easy to get hold of this tool so that we can use it. I needed the console on my work machine not on my personal machine. Because, yesterday I tried to install this console at my work machine and guess what, store is configured with my Hotmail account because it needs a Microsoft account which is not my work account and I had the option to install the console on my personal PC which was at home. as power users we are not impressed by the decision to choose store as the primary distribution model.Last time I checked, visual studio had the capability to produce exe in release mode which is duly signed. Hence you don't need to spend months of testing. An installer is an overkill and please avoid it. Power tools like console do not need an installer. I'm sorry criticism seems unkind, but these are legitimate concerns. I don't have time at work to install all the VS necessities to compile this and try to use it on Windows Server or I would, and I also don't understand the Windows 10 target audience, and I was legitimately curious if there's something I don't know that would make them the first targets. I wasn't being unkind, either I was asking a serious question, and making a few serious statements.

You say that letting someone else distribute it would save time and effort, (somone else being GitHub?) yet that's not what was done first? We recognize that it’s extremely important for a huge subset of our potential users, but we are prioritizing features and performance and bug fixes first. Letting somebody else do the distribution and installation frees up an entire month of engineering time otherwise spent building and testing an installer on all of our supported configurations. Here’s the deal: this is a preview release, and given our available resources we have to make sure we’re investing them wisely.

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