Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Nov 2006 23:03 UTC
Fresh from an almost missable US launch of Zune, Microsoft was back on familiar ground Tuesday touting server, security and admin software to reassure shareholders the company's future is bright. Bob Muglia, Microsoft's senior vice president for server and tools opened the company's IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain, by promising a third, and final, beta of Windows Longhorn Server during the first-half of 2007 with full product availability by years' end. Microsoft also officially launched its PowerShell.
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Just wondering why someone would bother to learn a whole slew of commands for Windows. Generally speaking, people who want the power of a command line do not bother to deploy Windows and people who want Windows don't want half the features to be hidden in the command line. I realize that this is a direction Microsoft wants to go but how many people seriously use the command line tools for Windows 2003 (DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, Services, etc?)
Before Microsoft hopes to get anywhere with a command line, they need to clean up their directory structure, ax the registry and simplify things down quite a lot. Unix was built from the ground up with the assumption of configuring everything from the command line. The last time anything was really built for the command line in Microsofts world was during the days of DOS. Unix is far more than just passing parameters to applications through the command line.