Microsoft will remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows starting in August, eight years after announcing its deprecation and keeping it around as an optional feature.

With the Terminal, Windows has a common interface for Powershell, Command Prompt, and Azure Cloud Shell. This allows you to start the terminal directly with the command prompt.

PowerShell 2.0 is finally history: The version of the shell program introduced with Windows 7 will be removed from Windows 11 version 24H2 from August 2025 and from Windows Server 2025 from ...