Star Only One More RC Before Windows 7 Goes Final
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Jan 2009 23:09 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Windows Microsoft has given a bit more insight into where to go from the Windows 7 beta to general availability. There will only be a release candidate (no second beta), and even though an exact release date is unknown, it is most likely released before the timebomb date of the beta (July 2). The RC will take much longer to expire, too.
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WorknMan
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2005-11-13

The command prompt is nearly as powerful as a full *nix shell, and many of the more arcane system settings are command-line only (boot manager setup, for example).


Can you expand on this? Do they include Powershell into 7 as standard?

Edited 2009-01-31 04:28 UTC

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PlatformAgnostic Member since:
2006-01-02

Yes.. PowerShell V2.

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Morgan Member since:
2005-06-29

Sorry for the late reply.

I'm not sure on the Powershell thing, but quite a few Bash tricks that are second nature to me work in 7's command line interface, such as piping output of a command to a file and adding locations to the PATH. Some things have slightly different syntax but once you get that right the results are great.

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flydpnkrtn Member since:
2009-01-02

Piping output to a file has worked since the days of NT 4 yore though, you just substitute cat for type

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