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Monad's New Name: Windows PowerShell

Today at the Microsoft Management Summit, Bob Muglia announced the new name for our new task-based command line shell and scripting language: Windows PowerShell (What do you think - like it?) Formerly known under the code-name "Monad", Windows PowerShell is now at the Release Candidate (RC1) milestone and will be fully baked in Q4 of 2006.

Windows PowerShell is fairly significant. Windows Server has always prided itself on ease-of-use through the GUI.....no doubt one strong feature that sets us apart from competition. But alas, it has been difficult to automate repetitive tasks due to the lackluster utilities and scripting language (.bat) of cmd.exe....not to mention the lack of a common syntax and naming convention. Even VBScript with all of it strengths still lacks an interactive shell. (more)

Windows PowerShell RC1 - x86