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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Member since:2006-01-14
I haven't been following Monad/PowerShell closely. I think one of the features added was integration into the .NET Framework. So, my understanding is that you have access to all of the same objects you would have in Visual Studio. That's all cool and all. But, I would be happy if they would just make the cmd window more usable. For starters, they could make it easier to resize. Another thing they could do would be to make the history work smarter. Essentially, I'm saying "copy any of the shells on *nix".
Member since:2006-11-02
Member since:2005-07-06
Modded you up, cmd.exe is horrid, the only good thing that can be said about it is that it's not command.com. It's inexcusably cumbersome to copy-paste text to/from CMD windows. It also feels pretty amateurish that shortcuts are effectively ignored in the command line (Oh, a 0KB .lnk file, how useful).
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2006-11-02
It's about time Microsoft put out a halfway-decent shell. I use Ubuntu myself, but I do have to use Windows sometimes, and I hate how half-baked CMD feels.