Nothing up the sleeve

The Bloomberg Professional Services Terminal (aka Bloomberg Terminal) was released in the early 80’s and has been evolving and thriving ever since. Anyone who used the Terminal back in the early days would certainly recognise it in its current modern form. Whilst it’s a Microsoft Windows based application, it has carved out a unique user-experience (UX) that has been popular with more than 325,000 users since inception. It has that very distinctive orange on black branding and has bucked the UI Windows style of menus to access features. This is not out of arrogance but is there to support access to the vastness of value available in the Bloomberg ecosystem, something no menu system could ever accommodate. Instead, it provides a command line interface (CLI) for the ever-growing repertoire of features.