A 100-pound weakling no more
After decades of being the laughing stock of all serious shells on other operating systems, Windows has finally gained a tolerable system. Today, Microsoft has finally released the Windows PowerShell to the public, for free.
This closes a huge gap that Windows has had, and others have tried to fill in, to some success. The PowerShell is somewhat UNIX-aware, in that it allows you to use a lot of UNIX commands (ls), where you used to have to type DOS commands (dir). This helps for those of us switching back and forth constantly, and who find ourselves constantly messing up.
In some ways, though, PowerShell is way ahead of the average UNIX system, in that it has access to a vast amount of the Win32 API, including access to WMI and COM, which gives you access to drive all sorts of fun things. It may actually get me to automate a lot of things on Windows that before I just did manually. Just for fun, type cd hklm: and see what happens.
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