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.

The "open" program is specific to OS X and lets you basically drag and drop a file with the -a command onto an application. This way it overrides the per-user OBJ open-with settings.

Check out these 20 commands that you can use in Command Prompt to navigate the system, organize files, troubleshoot problems, and perform specific tasks on Windows 11.