Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Nov 2006 23:03 UTC
Windows 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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RE: Yay for PowerShell!
by backdoc on Thu 16th Nov 2006 00:12 UTC in reply to "Yay for PowerShell!"
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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".

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RE[2]: Yay for PowerShell!
by Constantine XVI on Thu 16th Nov 2006 13:15 in reply to "RE: Yay for PowerShell!"
Constantine XVI Member since:
2006-11-02

Last time I used PowerShell, it had aliases for common *nix and cmd commands. And PowerShell does let you use anything in the .net FX. Unfortunatley, the shell window still sucks (as in, unchanged).

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