The documents included are: the Getting Started guide (an 80-page introduction to using the shell and the MSH language supported by the Windows Monad Shell), a single-page summary of the MSH language, formatted as a tri-fold, a quick-start guide to tracing in the Windows Monad Shell, and the three Hands-On Labs from the 2005 Professional Developers Conference; “Monad Scripting”, “Building Monad Cmdlets” and “Creating Monad Providers”.
What the hell does Monad stand for? Mono gonad? W00t!
Why would I want to get started with another attempt to reinvent something that already just works?
UNIX/LINUX command line is the best and has worked for HOW MANY YEARS?
Get a clue, MS.
If you are referring to shells such as BASH, C Shell and Korn Shell, there is no need to reinvent anything. These have been ported to Windows for a long time. There are native Win32 and Services for UNIX ports as well as Cygwin ports that run under emulation.
Why does the fact that these are currently the best shells lead you to “just say no” to a better shell in the future? Is it simply because Microsoft is building the next generation shell that you will not look at it? If you ignore technologies made by companies you do not like, do you have “a clue”?