"We ignored the console for 28 years because at first we thought everyone should use a mouse for everything. Then we wanted everyone to use PowerShell, despite being designed by morons and universally hated. And then we just sort of ignored the problem ( it's not like you were using Vista or Windows 8 anyways), hoping it would go away. Now we're doing the minimum we can to support the Linux subsystem because we want to be hip, but we're terrified of adding in security issues. Which would be very possible because of how wonky Windows security is and how badly the Console works... Typing 'dir' goes to the kernel level to check permissioms, but is written in 30 year old C code. We can barely get the thing to compile. But hey - ANSI colors! Huh?? Pretry great, right?"